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<p>[QUOTE="Tejas, post: 20829236, member: 84905"]One of the "unique" half-siliquae with Odovacers' name is in the British Museum. Another example (and a forgery) are in the Berlin coin cabinet. Interestingly, the decription in the Berlin coin cabinet states that "<b>all coins of Odovacar with his name are doubtful"</b>. Unfortunately, Italien forger Luigi Cigoi produced such coins in the 19th century.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://id.smb.museum/object/2390268/odovacar" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://id.smb.museum/object/2390268/odovacar" rel="nofollow">https://id.smb.museum/object/2390268/odovacar</a></p><p><br /></p><p>There is more information about the "genuine" piece under this link</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://ikmk.smb.museum/object?id=18262522" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://ikmk.smb.museum/object?id=18262522" rel="nofollow">MK-B | Odovacar 476-493 (smb.museum)</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The coin has an old provenance and a plausible find spot. The problem here is that the previous owner was Dr Friedrich Stefan. Stefan was a renown Austrian numismatist, who unfortunately also engaged in coin forgery. There are other extremely rare coins in public collections that were acquired from Stefan and which later turned out to be forgeries.</p><p><br /></p><p>From the picture, the coin looks absolutely genuine to me, and I think the Berlin Coin Cabinet thinks that it is genuine, but given its history doubts remain.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Tejas, post: 20829236, member: 84905"]One of the "unique" half-siliquae with Odovacers' name is in the British Museum. Another example (and a forgery) are in the Berlin coin cabinet. Interestingly, the decription in the Berlin coin cabinet states that "[B]all coins of Odovacar with his name are doubtful"[/B]. Unfortunately, Italien forger Luigi Cigoi produced such coins in the 19th century. [URL]https://id.smb.museum/object/2390268/odovacar[/URL] There is more information about the "genuine" piece under this link [URL='https://ikmk.smb.museum/object?id=18262522']MK-B | Odovacar 476-493 (smb.museum)[/URL] The coin has an old provenance and a plausible find spot. The problem here is that the previous owner was Dr Friedrich Stefan. Stefan was a renown Austrian numismatist, who unfortunately also engaged in coin forgery. There are other extremely rare coins in public collections that were acquired from Stefan and which later turned out to be forgeries. From the picture, the coin looks absolutely genuine to me, and I think the Berlin Coin Cabinet thinks that it is genuine, but given its history doubts remain.[/QUOTE]
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