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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kevin McGonigal, post: 7948623, member: 72790&quot;]Whoever issued them, they do have some value as numismatic antiquities and probably a few obvious ones belong in a collection of ancients. But, caveat emptor, my experience is that dealers try to sell these coins at about 75% of what they would sell as the genuine article but if one tries to sell one to the same dealer feel good if you get offered 20% of what they would offer for a genuine coin. As I said, having a few as ancient curiosities, to be able to show that counterfeiting was invented the day after coinage was is just fine, but as investments, not a wise choice. One of the few that I have is a scarce coin, one of Sextus Pompey, and it is a possible, maybe even probable, fourree, some dark spots, what looks like thin silver and it is light weight and crudely struck, except for the actual image of Pompey, which is not bad. The dealer I bought it from noted on the envelope that it might be a plated coin&nbsp; so I knew what I was buying and the price was about 1/3 of what it would have been as a genuine coin. Also, given that Sextus Pompey was in big trouble when the coin was minted it is possible that a wretched strike was exactly what his military mint was striking. Anyway, here is the coin below. At 2.7 grams it is pretty light for anything not a plated coin. From the appearance of wear it looks like it circulated somewhere for some time. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1376856[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1376857[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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