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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ValiantKnight, post: 1972402, member: 44210&quot;]As a dedicated collector of 5th century Roman coins, this article truly was a very interesting one and, while introducing me to this recent Avitus coin misattribution problem, reminds me of the difficulties with trying successfully identifying a lot of these tiny bronzes. I look around for rare rulers such as these (not usually buying the expensive ones, but hopefully scoring one in a random lot or something) and I see listings of coins like these all of the time, supposedly as some crazy-rare emperor like Avitus or Majorian, but usually, on closer inspection, are of more common emperors like Honorius. Or if I can&#039;t definitively ID it as any emperor, to be safe, I just assume it is not a rare ruler and pass it by. I don&#039;t want to waste time and money on a coin that I will always have doubts about. Even if a coin to me looks like it is of a very rare ruler, to be sure, I will ask trustworthy people I know that are knowledgeable about these coins their thoughts on it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Recently I saw an Arcadius Salvs Reipvblice being sold as a Majorian (but priced at 10 times less than the cheapest Majorians). I informed the seller what it really was. They said they were going to correct the listing but didn&#039;t, and sure enough, the &quot;Majorian&quot; sold. Imo it doesn&#039;t hurt to do your research beforehand when considering buying these kinds of coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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