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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 685643, member: 19463&quot;]Since you are convinced the coin is no good, perhaps you should return it to the seller or donate it to a charity (Ancient Coins for Education would appreciate it, I suspect).&nbsp;&nbsp; You might first choose to research it a bit.&nbsp; You are a bit off on the date but that is understandable since the vast majority of coins this late have legends.&nbsp; </p><p>Start with this suggestion:</p><p><br /></p><p>Anonymous (86 BC) Apollo/Jupiter in Quadriga BMC 2622; Sydenham 723; Crawford 350A/2; Seaby, <u>Roman Silver Coins</u> (vol. 1) 226</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin is a fine example of the practice of flan adjustment gouging before striking which makes it (a) ugly and (b) cheaper.&nbsp; This issue seems to have &#039;suffered&#039; this practice more often than some.&nbsp; Certainly you can never say that something would never be faked but faking a flan adjusted coin&nbsp; could be termed &#039;odd&#039; since it cuts into the profits by at least 75% compared to a normal coin most people would prefer.&nbsp;&nbsp; My hat is off to the faker who knows enough to be able to fake this vastly disrespected technical oddity.&nbsp; A decent, mid grade specimen without the gouge still is $100.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;d place a gouged and overcleaned one like yours at a bit more than you paid.&nbsp; &nbsp; I paid $16 for mine in 2002.&nbsp; Yours is nicer because the flan is wide enough to show the thunderbolt under Apollo while mine has a smaller flan.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The ones listed below are all super grade so they are worth more.</p><p><a href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?search=syd+723&amp;view_mode=1&amp;cac=1&amp;cng=1&amp;fac=1#2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?search=syd+723&amp;view_mode=1&amp;cac=1&amp;cng=1&amp;fac=1#2" rel="nofollow">http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?search=syd+723&amp;view_mode=1&amp;cac=1&amp;cng=1&amp;fac=1#2</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Were you burned? I doubt it but we never authenticate anything from poor photos.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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