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<p>[QUOTE="cmezner, post: 3173122, member: 87809"]Thank you very much Al for your input. </p><p><br /></p><p>It would make sense if I would be doing something with the coin, but it will be sleeping in its coin flip as it has been for the last 20 years. What difference would it make if the label doesn't say fake ? I am just trying to organize and attribute my late dad's collection. I enjoy very much doing this and learned a lot, not only of coins but also about history. He did not have the time left to attribute his coins, some are labeled and attributed by him, but most of them are not. This particular coin just has a note saying that it was a gift from his friend who had been in Ephesus. Knowing my dad, it is kind of a warning: I did not buy it, I don't know if it is real... </p><p><br /></p><p>I also tried to find this denarius type at the British Museum but they don't list it and the attribution given at acsearch RIC 72, 372 is not in numismatics.org. The attribution BMC 63, 447 (acsearch) is for an aureus, maybe this denarius type had never been struck.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cmezner, post: 3173122, member: 87809"]Thank you very much Al for your input. It would make sense if I would be doing something with the coin, but it will be sleeping in its coin flip as it has been for the last 20 years. What difference would it make if the label doesn't say fake ? I am just trying to organize and attribute my late dad's collection. I enjoy very much doing this and learned a lot, not only of coins but also about history. He did not have the time left to attribute his coins, some are labeled and attributed by him, but most of them are not. This particular coin just has a note saying that it was a gift from his friend who had been in Ephesus. Knowing my dad, it is kind of a warning: I did not buy it, I don't know if it is real... I also tried to find this denarius type at the British Museum but they don't list it and the attribution given at acsearch RIC 72, 372 is not in numismatics.org. The attribution BMC 63, 447 (acsearch) is for an aureus, maybe this denarius type had never been struck. Chris[/QUOTE]
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