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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2034864, member: 19463&quot;]Yes, as Ides said, &quot;Nothing about it (the style, the wear pattern, the legends, etc.) look like any other genuine Tiberius that I have ever seen.&quot;&nbsp; It is not as simple as with some modern coins where we might say that the mintmark is quarter of a millimeter tilted to the left.&nbsp; Between us all, I suspect we have seen a thousand times as many of these coins as you saw last night.&nbsp; We might be fooled if someone really tried to craft a photo to make a poor condition genuine coin look like a fake so most of us really prefer not to be too dogmatic so we say things like &#039;very,very likely&#039; but what we probably should say is that the coin has the same chance of being a winner as the lottery ticket you might have bought last night.&nbsp;&nbsp; It is hard to put these things in words but it is a lot like handwriting.&nbsp; I have signed my name a thousand times and no two are exactly alike.&nbsp; Still I probably would be able to pick out of the thousand the one someone else signed unless they were quite skilled in forgery.&nbsp; Similarly, I recognize certain friends with some regularity that I would have trouble describing in such a way that you could pick them from a group of people the same height and general characteristics.&nbsp; This coin shows no great skill in convincing us that it is other than what we said from the start:[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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