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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;maridvnvm, post: 2855181, member: 31620&quot;]I spotted the follwing coin for sale on VCoins I had to come and ask people here about it. We had some discussion recently on whether a tooled coin was still worthy or not.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the coin in question.</p><p><br /></p><p>Severus Alexander Æ Sestertius</p><p>Rome mint, struck, AD 226.</p><p><b>Obv. </b>Laureate and draped bust right.</p><p><b>Rev.</b> The facade (fountain or nymphaeum) of the Thermae of Alexander Severus.</p><p>RIC IV 449 (R3)</p><p>(31mm,&nbsp; 19.84 g.)</p><p>Graged aEF,Green patina, some red on reverse.</p><p>Fields smoothed, somewhat tooled, edges untouched.</p><p><br /></p><p>It isn&#039;t cheap at Eur 4500.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]678557[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>So a rare type. Do you find it reassuring that the edges are untouched? That implies that everything apart from the edges may have been untouched.</p><p><br /></p><p>The following is the plate coin from RIC that shows the As of the type so that we can see what the reverse type should look like.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]678567[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This would imply to me that the Sestertius above is at best completely tooled on the reverse with low amounts of skill and nothing there is original. Look at the reverse legend which is very clunky and doesn&#039;t follow a circular pattern being forced in to what is available on the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>For those willing to accept tooling... does this go too far?</p><p><br /></p><p>I must admit that I laughed out loud when I saw it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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