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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1271438, member: 19463&quot;]It is a style thing.&nbsp; These often look a bit crude in an die cut sense and the Antony here has a reasonable look with Octavian being a bit overly neat.&nbsp; It&nbsp; is not that I feel the coin is bad but that the variations on these is great enough that I would&nbsp; not make that call.&nbsp; The fields are very regular which can mean a well struck coin or one pressed in a machine.&nbsp; I do not think the coin is a cast.&nbsp; I see no signs od age that could not be created artificially.&nbsp; That does not make the coin bad but it does not confirm it either.&nbsp; If goes back to the point that I would not buy the coin from a stranger who walked in off the street but would be more inclined to shop at Harlan Berk or CNG if I wanted one of these. </p><p><br /></p><p>Actually, I do have one but it is fourree and really terrible looking.&nbsp; I bought it in 1988 from a dealer no longer with us for a price that recognized it was junk.&nbsp; It is the only one I have ever handled and that exposure does not qualify me beyond having a feeling that the coin should be expertised.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]139284.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d send it to David Sear for a certificate or see if Berk (Chicago) would buy/consign it.&nbsp; I would not risk my name by selling it to someone who knows less about it than I do.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know if modern coins have equivalents in gray area coins but I see ancients that are good, bad and ones I&#039;d avoid just to be safe.&nbsp; Since I do not pretend to be a dealer, I don&#039;t have to bet real money on gray coins - I just don&#039;t buy them.</p><p><br /></p><p>If I were to make a suggestion to you it would be to see if you can get Harlan Berk or one of his primary employees to do a spot on the Coin Show and discuss the status of the Ancient Coin hobby with you and your audience.&nbsp; As part of the interview you could bring up the question of how you know something that old is real and offer the coin as an example.&nbsp; If you learn nothing about the coin you at least get a spot I&#039;d like to hear on the show.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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