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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Carthago, post: 2451635, member: 76111&quot;]It&#039;s hard to describe.&nbsp; It doesn&#039;t look right in hand and it doesn&#039;t feel right - it&#039;s slick.&nbsp; I&#039;m not 100% sure but I think it was cast and tooled.&nbsp; It looks corroded from the photo and but doesn&#039;t really look corroded in hand; it simply looks very strange especially the fields.&nbsp; I immediately thought that when I got the coin, but didn&#039;t know enough about ancients to know it might not be right.&nbsp;&nbsp; I took it to a coin show to show some dealers and they agreed.&nbsp; When I finally showed it to the dealer from whom I bought it (large, European auction house), he immediately shook his head and apologized to me.&nbsp; He said that should have never been sold by them and acted surprised it was.&nbsp; I had a check mailed to me a few weeks later.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m no expert on Elagabalus and don&#039;t know if there are stylistic issues with this coin, but it definitely wasn&#039;t &quot;right&quot; in hand.</p><p><br /></p><p>**edited** and the edges were worked on significantly if I remember correctly.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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