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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Choucas, post: 7143072, member: 100117&quot;]In my opinion it could be official, but clipped. See how the die is much larger than the flan. Also, the dark colour looks like tarnished billon (even though I could be wrong - I don&#039;t have the coin in hand). There seems to be silvery colour underneath. Indeed, coins of Gallus are quite silver-ish when they are well preserved and/or well cleaned but a tarnish like that isn&#039;t really unseen on ants of that period.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the style, it is difficult to say for sure whether the dies are official or not in my opinion, the fact that most of the coin and the design are missing don&#039;t really help. If I had to make a guess, I would say official : the lettering, the design features and the portrait don&#039;t look too weird for an official. I think that the &quot;crudeness&quot; of this coin could actually be the result of its poor condition.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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