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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Black Bart, post: 2574338, member: 83417&quot;]Certainly not an issue of any official Roman mint. To me it looks like a contemporary ancient forgery executed by an illiterate counterfeiter.&nbsp; However, the only way such a nefarious entrepreneur profited by such a time consuming exercise was to silver plate a base metal core, usually bronze, and enjoy the profit when spent. This coin is very distressed and displays a flaking edge which should be examined to check for a base copper core. A specific gravity test would also help determine the metallic purity. On the bright side, an ancient forgery has a collector value considerably above a modern example produced simply to deceive today&#039;s collectors.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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