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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Al Kowsky, post: 7628780, member: 97383&quot;]T.E. A light-weight solidus should have a star in the right field as your coin appears to have, however, the metalsmith who hammered out this form may not have known this. One thing that makes me suspicious about your coin is the lack of doubling as is seen on most scyphate coins like the coin below.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1312474[/ATTACH]</p><p>Scyphate coins were struck at least twice in order to get a complete image on both sides, &amp; visible doubling is usually obvious on the convex side. The lettering on traditional gold scyphate coinage is usually much smaller than seen on flat coinage.</p><p>The lettering on your coin appears to have the typical size proportionally as you&#039;d expect to see on a solidus of this period. I sold the M. Tiberius solidus pictured bellow a long time ago for comparison.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1312493[/ATTACH]</p><p>If a solidus has been hammered into a different form you&#039;d expect to see a loss of detail without distortion of images as your coin demonstrates. Sending your coin to <b>NGC </b>or <b>David Sear</b> for authentication seems like the smart thing to do <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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