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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 8285455, member: 98035&quot;]Guilt by association-</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=Nepos&amp;category=1-2&amp;company=35&amp;lot=&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;images=1&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;currency=usd&amp;order=0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=Nepos&amp;category=1-2&amp;company=35&amp;lot=&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;images=1&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;currency=usd&amp;order=0" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=Nepos&amp;category=1-2&amp;company=35&amp;lot=&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;images=1&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;currency=usd&amp;order=0</a></p><p><br /></p><p>1) Emporium Hamburg has sold more Julius Nepos AE4s in the last ~9 years than all other auction houses combined in the last 20 years</p><p>2) I am confident that nearly all of those are fake, given the same patina, the same &quot;wiry&quot; engraving style, too detailed and deliberately crude to be an authentic AE4 of the terminal empire</p><p>3) See this thread:</p><p><a href="https://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=353775" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=353775" rel="nofollow">https://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=353775</a></p><p>A known ex-Emporium Hamburg coin of Aelia Zenonis had its entire surface &quot;dissolve&quot; revealing that it was a bronze slug with the portrait and monogram added on with some sort of plastic</p><p>4) Hamburg has sold hundreds of these tiny AE4s, all extremely rare and expensive types (so rare that one might expect to see approximately 2-3 per decade across all auction houses), all in the same general art style, and they keep listing them despite their hammering at half or less of the FMV of a genuine example. Why wouldn&#039;t the consignor try their luck at NAC or Heritage or any of the other houses that attract eyes with big wallets attached?</p><p><br /></p><p>The simplest explanation is that all of these coins are fake.</p><p><br /></p><p>The CNG coin is an obverse die match to a fake. It *could* have been used to create a die to make fakes, but IMO that seems unlikely to me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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