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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Limes, post: 4362602, member: 101013&quot;]Thanks everyone for replying. It&#039;s troublesome on the one hand to read that this coin could have fooled many. On the other hand it alleviates my troubles a bit. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you for replying [USER=96900]@Lolli[/USER]. I appreciate your opinion. You might have seen the responses below the specific thread at FAC. In particular, the opinion of Joe Sermarini: </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Your coin is very likely fake. First, there is only going to be one genuine coin like this and likely many <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/index.php" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/index.php" rel="nofollow">fakes</a>. Second, the known cast fake does not have the scrapes. It seems unlikely someone would have scraped up a genuine coin after using it to make <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/index.php" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/index.php" rel="nofollow">fakes</a>. More likely the scrapes are an attempt to hide <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/thumbnails.php?album=14" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/thumbnails.php?album=14" rel="nofollow">evidence of casting</a>. And, third, I think your coin simply looks cast. I think I see wavy fields, abnormal <a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=porosity" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=porosity" rel="nofollow">porosity</a>, and the cracks are likely filed. Also, although genuine coins are sometimes polished to leave darker areas around the <a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=type" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=type" rel="nofollow">type</a> and <a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=legend" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=legend" rel="nofollow">legend</a>, it is very common &quot;aging&quot; on <a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=fake%20coins" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=fake%20coins" rel="nofollow">fake coins</a>. Natural <a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=toning" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=toning" rel="nofollow">toning</a> is more likely to be&nbsp; lighter in recessed protected areas and darker in the open fields.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>What I wonder is, what are the odds that the coin sold by a notorious seller and that appears over more then one year later, is a copy of my would-be-authentic coin which I have had in possession during that period? Would the fake seller have held his coin in his stock during that time? Or do more of these coins exist in private collections, that have not appeared online yet? And would that mean that the original is somewhere out there, perhaps in possession of the person who makes these fakes, and these two coins - albeit different in detail, quality, are copies from that same authentic coin? Too many questions remain. Perhaps sending it to Sear is an option. I will consider it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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