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<p>[QUOTE="Lolli, post: 3951239, member: 96900"]@ Bing your coin looks cast in pictures and there are twins one even with better details so it is clear that yours must be cast and can not be the authentic mother. The left one could be authentic mother, sharpest and best details and the area where the planchet ends and the edge starts is not so rounded (so rounded planchet at edge can be often found on bad cast fakes) </p><p>Your has new scratches applied to distract and let it differ from mother and other twins that it is not too obvious that they are actually identical and artificial wear was applied to hide casting problems and with artificial toning, such manipulations can be found often on fakes and are alarm signals.</p><p>The casting twins are from here</p><p><a href="https://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=296552" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=296552" rel="nofollow">https://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=296552</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>But that cast fakes of Nero tetradrachms exist like from most popular ancient coin emissions is not affecting the authenticity of the coin from first post. I do not see any obvious problems with the coin from the first post but a reliable authentication is not possible based on pictures</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1041084[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Lolli, post: 3951239, member: 96900"]@ Bing your coin looks cast in pictures and there are twins one even with better details so it is clear that yours must be cast and can not be the authentic mother. The left one could be authentic mother, sharpest and best details and the area where the planchet ends and the edge starts is not so rounded (so rounded planchet at edge can be often found on bad cast fakes) Your has new scratches applied to distract and let it differ from mother and other twins that it is not too obvious that they are actually identical and artificial wear was applied to hide casting problems and with artificial toning, such manipulations can be found often on fakes and are alarm signals. The casting twins are from here [URL]https://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=296552[/URL] But that cast fakes of Nero tetradrachms exist like from most popular ancient coin emissions is not affecting the authenticity of the coin from first post. I do not see any obvious problems with the coin from the first post but a reliable authentication is not possible based on pictures [ATTACH=full]1041084[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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