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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Harry G, post: 6587848, member: 105282&quot;]Interesting topic! I see those horrible fake Sponsian &quot;coins&quot; on eBay all the time, and am very interested to see if a real one ever existed.</p><p><br /></p><p>As was said previously on this thread, the coin&#039;s style is strange to say the least, and surely, if someone made Sponsianus up, they would have at least tried to make the coin seem plausable, and similar to other coins of the period. The fact that the style is so different to any similar coin, makes me think that Sponsian might have been real, or at least real coins might be.</p><p><br /></p><p>Is it possible that Sponsian was just a random person, probably rich, who just got up one day and thought: &quot;You know what, I&#039;m just gonna mint some &#039;coins&#039; to mint and give them to the fam. That&#039;ll be fun, and it&#039;ll confuse future historians! I&#039;ll copy the reverse of that Republican denarius I found in that pot to confuse them further&quot;?</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe we will find out some day...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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