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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SeptimusT, post: 9605553, member: 91240&quot;]I didn&#039;t see any contemporary 3rd century cast forgeries, <a href="http://users.stlcc.edu/mfuller/caenroman.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://users.stlcc.edu/mfuller/caenroman.html" rel="nofollow">but I did find some earlier ones</a>, and they are pretty prolific in the 4th century. So it stands to reason that they existed contemporary to this coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>But why would a would-be usurper produce his coins this way? And why would a&nbsp; forger use a real, legible but fake name, as opposed to either a real copied inscription or &#039;barbarous&#039; gibberish?</p><p><br /></p><p>Any idea what the reasoning on them being struck was? The edge of this coin doesn&#039;t scream cast at me, and I could buy the rough surfaces being due to corrosion, but I&#039;m inclined to trust the people who looked at it with a microscope.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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