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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2450698, member: 19463&quot;]While it makes me happy that I do not have either the Septimius or the Julia fakes, it bothers me that I did not know about them.&nbsp; Of course I have bought very few Severans in the last decade (since Martin has been buying them all) so these may be new products. It bothers me more that Martin says:</p><p><br /></p><p>but I have not seen or noted any. </p><p><br /></p><p>Being light is a common feature of Eastern denarii so I&#039;m not sure how significant that is. Of course I guess all my light ones could be fakes but overall I did not see these mints being terribly consistent on weight.&nbsp; I have the obverse die on a Spes reverse bought in 1996 which I had never questioned. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]511881[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The Clodius is a well documented fake but the number of dies and minor style differences on these scarce Alexandria coins from so many dies makes me wonder if we should address the possibility that the whole type is fake.&nbsp; Considering the number of Alexandria coins seen before 1990 and the number of new ones since then, I worry about the lot of them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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