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<p>[QUOTE="R*L, post: 3155363, member: 96878"]My one and only fourrée - sharper in hand than in picture, I suspect before the plating broke it would have easily fooled my ancient Roman equivalent based on looks alone, although at 2.90g it's weight may have given it away as it's about .8-.9g lighter than good genuine examples of type and .5g lighter than the average given on OCRE (but then again it's not outside the range of wieght for genuine coins of this type and presumably it was a bit heavier prior to the silver coming away and corrosion setting in, so maybe it wouldn't have been too suspicious).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]809138[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="R*L, post: 3155363, member: 96878"]My one and only fourrée - sharper in hand than in picture, I suspect before the plating broke it would have easily fooled my ancient Roman equivalent based on looks alone, although at 2.90g it's weight may have given it away as it's about .8-.9g lighter than good genuine examples of type and .5g lighter than the average given on OCRE (but then again it's not outside the range of wieght for genuine coins of this type and presumably it was a bit heavier prior to the silver coming away and corrosion setting in, so maybe it wouldn't have been too suspicious). [ATTACH=full]809138[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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