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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3946722, member: 19463"]Rather than being cast from the BM coin, this was pressed from modern dies made while referring to the BM coin. </p><p><a href="https://coinreplicas.com/product/hadrian-117-138-ad-ae-roman-imperial-sestertius/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coinreplicas.com/product/hadrian-117-138-ad-ae-roman-imperial-sestertius/" rel="nofollow">https://coinreplicas.com/product/hadrian-117-138-ad-ae-roman-imperial-sestertius/</a></p><p>"Made in USA"</p><p><br /></p><p>There are several companies in the business of making replica ancients which will fool no one with much exposure to the real thing but become a problem to us when people find them in "grandpa's things" and think we are cheating them when we tell them the coin is not genuine. Of the ones found online with a quick search, this is probably the best but it is aimed at the museum gift shop market rather than at members of Coin Talk. If you look at their other products, you may recognize coins we have been shown here by people who drop in hoping they have found a treasure.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3946722, member: 19463"]Rather than being cast from the BM coin, this was pressed from modern dies made while referring to the BM coin. [URL]https://coinreplicas.com/product/hadrian-117-138-ad-ae-roman-imperial-sestertius/[/URL] "Made in USA" There are several companies in the business of making replica ancients which will fool no one with much exposure to the real thing but become a problem to us when people find them in "grandpa's things" and think we are cheating them when we tell them the coin is not genuine. Of the ones found online with a quick search, this is probably the best but it is aimed at the museum gift shop market rather than at members of Coin Talk. If you look at their other products, you may recognize coins we have been shown here by people who drop in hoping they have found a treasure.[/QUOTE]
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