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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ryro, post: 7503993, member: 91461&quot;]I am just cruising along looking for coins of Livia and, of course, Tribute pennies come up. Not a fan. I have my 1 and need no more. But, knowing these are heavily faked, this coin jumped out at me as a modern cast forgery. Soapy, little detail, craters and the auction house itself make me suspicious. Then I looked closer and it has flow lines?? I have often heard that you cannot fake flow lines on cast coins. My eyes aren&#039;t the best at spotting them, but I am working on getting better by looking at LOTS and LOTS of coins every day. Is it just well worn? Am I mistaken, could this be legit?? </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1296576[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Next up is his buddy Trajberius. This one doesn&#039;t have all the tell tale signs, but the portrait made me chuckle due to it having a resemblance to Trajan:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1296575[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>We know the &quot;Tribute Penny&quot;, as this type is often called when for sale, is heavily forged due to some folks wanting to believe a book from a couple millenia ago is word for word factual.</p><p>Again, this is purely educational as I am not interested in these coins nor even the type, but want to improve my eyes and know if I am seeing something or just seeing things? I&#039;ve been wrong before. As Frank reminds us,</p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]TnlPtaPxXfc[/MEDIA]</p><p>Insight and opinions are appreciated, especially from experts...or at least folks that have been around ancients longer than I have (around 5 years now give or take).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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