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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marc Aceton, post: 1996402, member: 72101&quot;]Dear John,</p><p><br /></p><p>most of the counterfeits in this sale can be found among the aurei whereas the percentage of fakes among the bronzes is admittedly low. Besides the Galba, Hispania, I do not trust the Caracalla Circus Maximus. Further, I am very curious to know whether or not the Nero, Ostia is counterfeit since a few years ago, a coin of identical die was vended at CNG.</p><p><br /></p><p>Besides the forgeries, one must mention that a an unacceptable large number of the bronzes is heavily tooled, which I regard as falsified. The reverse of the Caligula, hexastyle temple sestertius is tooled to such an extent that one might consider it to be forged.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nevertheless, there are some coins that are definitely &quot;good&quot;. For sake of fairness, I want to emphasize this and will list here the pictures of five of them. I do not want to leave the impression that one cannot purchase nice coins in such a sale.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://static.deamoneta.com/auctions/253/img/820D.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://static.deamoneta.com/auctions/253/img/758D.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://static.deamoneta.com/auctions/253/img/845D.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://static.deamoneta.com/auctions/253/img/844D.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://static.deamoneta.com/auctions/253/img/942D.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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