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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TTerrier, post: 2887816, member: 76835&quot;]I received this in the mail the other day (from a vendor on MA Shops) and was surprised to find out it weighs 4.43g (20mm) which seems really heavy.&nbsp; I am slowly collecting denarii of Severus Alexander and it is by far the heaviest one I have - the next heaviest one is about 3.7g.&nbsp; Sellers pic below.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]693420[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This is RIC 125 RSC III 453 - the last year of his reign 235AD.&nbsp; I thought this might be on the heavy side based on the thickness of the flan you can see from the picture (no weight or diameter was given by the seller).&nbsp; I also thought the flan edge looked somewhat squared off on the bottom which is unusual but while having some wear, the coin is not excessively worn and therefore might not have fully rounded edges.</p><p><br /></p><p>I looked through coinforgery and Forvm fake reports without finding any matches, and didn&#039;t see any die matches on acsearch.&nbsp; Looking at it under 30x magnification most of the raised areas meet the fields in fairly sharp angles and there are some remnants of flow lines.&nbsp; I didn&#039;t see any casting bubbles and the fields are not uniformly smooth so it doesn&#039;t look like either a &quot;normal&quot; or pressure cast to me.&nbsp; I don&#039;t see any sign of a casting seam and some of the cracks in the edges do have dirt and even some green encrustations.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, I am not good at spotting fakes which is why I never buy anything off Ebay unless its a vendor that also runs auctions on Sixbid or has a Vcoins store.</p><p><br /></p><p>Comments are welcome on whether this could be a cast or whether we actually get denarii this far outside the normal weight range.</p><p><br /></p><p>As an aside I find the fake reports on Forvm frustrating to use sometimes because the posters rarely give any detailed reasons as to why they are fake.&nbsp; I do appreciate the time people take to post fakes but to me, one-liners like &quot;obvious cast&quot; or &quot;produced in Bulgaria&quot; don&#039;t convey much useful information. Some of the fakes are obvious but others (and by that I mean many others) would have fooled me.&nbsp; Forvm has some great examples of the various types of fakes but I think it would be a more useful site if the regular fake reports required at least a brief explanation.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for your help![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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