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Message:: [QUOTE="jamesicus, post: 4608193, member: 14873"]Thank you for doing that [USER=106566]@DCCR[/USER] - you are a champion researcher! The high cost of the CNG example you posted is because it is an original Bourgey galvano copy. There was also an example of a cast replica (something like the one I posted here) offered by CNG a while ago and that was the one I was referencing (a little more research [USER=106566]@DCCR[/USER] ?). I think there are several sources for these cast copies. As I mentioned previously, they are available from time to time from various sources in a variety of metals. A little further history: I had been seeking one of these so that I could include a photo of it on my “Britannic coins of the Tetrarchy” web page (now defunct). I found this one for sale in a local coin shop about forty years ago. I cannot recall what I paid for it - I think about $50. I use the pic of the reverse as my avatar.  I no longer own it - I gave it to Mauseus - a denizen of another Ancient Coin Forum - he is/was one of the most knowledgeable collectors of Carausian coins I knew of and I wanted to be sure this item got into the collection of someone like him before I shuffle off this mortal coil. That was in my pre-Coin Talk days - now I wish I would have held on to it and gifted it to a Coin Talker.[/QUOTE]