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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 8286361, member: 26430&quot;]In my opinion, <span style="color: #ff0000">the two coins are definitely NOT die matches</span> -- <span style="color: #ff0000">at least not double. (Just compare the placement of the letters in the legends, the angles of the lines in the monogram. Four different dies made these two coins.)</span></p><p><br /></p><p><b>EDIT: </b><i><span style="color: #0000ff">Okay, too strongly stated, too quick, at least on the obverse. I overlaid them on photoshop and those obverse appear to be the same.</span></i></p><p><i><span style="color: #0000ff">And the reverse appears to be the same. </span></i></p><p><i><span style="color: #0000ff">Double die match. Concerning!</span></i></p><p><br /></p><p>You&#039;re absolutely right about Emporium Hamburg&#039;s output, though, and to keep a critical eye on these coins generally.</p><p><br /></p><p>EH&#039;s countless late AE4 rarities are way beyond what I would consider credible! They are responsible for <i>the vast majority</i> of the very late rarities in ACSearch. Often numerous coins that have never appeared in another auction. And all appearing very similar in style. Their pedigree in a later sale is a big red flag.</p><p><br /></p><p>There have been lots of online discussions of this, as I&#039;m sure many are aware.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know if the CNG coin is real but I wouldn&#039;t have doubted it -- beyond the fact that I do feel a special skepticism for any tiny crude AE4s (much as I love those coins; I&#039;ve got dozens or hundreds I pulled from group lots over the years and decades, most of which I still can&#039;t definitively ID). I also highly skeptical of many of the attributions. (As Rasiel Suarez wrote about in his blog post on &quot;<a href="https://dirtyoldcoins.com/Roman-Coins-Blog/1239" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://dirtyoldcoins.com/Roman-Coins-Blog/1239" rel="nofollow">The Avitus Problem</a>&quot; [a <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-avitus-ae-problem.250537/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-avitus-ae-problem.250537/">related CT discussion here</a>] a few years back I think.)</p><p><br /></p><p>But I would feel much much better about the CNG coin. To me nothing jumps out as obviously wrong with it, and it&#039;s much more convincing that the E-H one. <b>EDIT</b>: <span style="color: #0000ff">Except that I now see it&#039;s a die match. I&#039;d really like to know how the E-H ones are produced. They have a very distinctive look. (Maybe they start looking like the CNG but then they&#039;re always heavily weathered to look rough?)</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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