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<p>[QUOTE="Finn235, post: 4885856, member: 98035"]Picked up these two from two separate Roma lots (no mention of any fakery), both seemed "too good to be true" but I am trying to figure out at this point where they are on the spectrum from "Genuine but altered" to "Outright fake"</p><p><br /></p><p>Coin 1:</p><p><br /></p><p>Hadrian AE Sestertius</p><p>HADRIANVS AVG COS III PP, Bare head right</p><p>SC, Pax-Nemesis standing right, holding branch and drawing drapery from chest</p><p>24.38g 32mm</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1178950[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Comparison:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1178952[/ATTACH] </p><p>(Bertolami)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1178953[/ATTACH] </p><p>(CNG)</p><p><br /></p><p>My thoughts -</p><p><br /></p><p>Pros:</p><p>- Patina seems OK</p><p>- Hair looks like a die match to the Bertolami example</p><p>- Corrosion at bottom of portrait is reassuring</p><p><br /></p><p>Cons:</p><p>- Hair is almost certainly tooled</p><p>- I can't find any other examples where nemesis' robe isn't billowing at all</p><p>- Feathers of far wing are pointed on most examples I've seen</p><p><br /></p><p>My guess: Genuine, obverse hair tooled, some smoothing, reverse probably somewhat tooled and almost definitely smoothed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Finn235, post: 4885856, member: 98035"]Picked up these two from two separate Roma lots (no mention of any fakery), both seemed "too good to be true" but I am trying to figure out at this point where they are on the spectrum from "Genuine but altered" to "Outright fake" Coin 1: Hadrian AE Sestertius HADRIANVS AVG COS III PP, Bare head right SC, Pax-Nemesis standing right, holding branch and drawing drapery from chest 24.38g 32mm [ATTACH=full]1178950[/ATTACH] Comparison: [ATTACH=full]1178952[/ATTACH] (Bertolami) [ATTACH=full]1178953[/ATTACH] (CNG) My thoughts - Pros: - Patina seems OK - Hair looks like a die match to the Bertolami example - Corrosion at bottom of portrait is reassuring Cons: - Hair is almost certainly tooled - I can't find any other examples where nemesis' robe isn't billowing at all - Feathers of far wing are pointed on most examples I've seen My guess: Genuine, obverse hair tooled, some smoothing, reverse probably somewhat tooled and almost definitely smoothed.[/QUOTE]
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