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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;maridvnvm, post: 2140691, member: 31620&quot;]I normally avoid buying fakes, which involves lots of study and reserach and building up of knowledge. Despite this I have bought a fake but bought this one in the full knowledge that it is a fake.</p><p><br /></p><p>The feel of the coin is just wrong, it has the soft soapy look of a cast and there is the evidence of the remnants of the casting sprue on the edge. I bought it as a study example of a fake I hadn&#039;t seen an example of before.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is made of silver but copies an aureus:-</p><p><br /></p><p>Septimius Severus Aureus</p><p>Obv:- L SEPT SEV PERT AVG IMP VII, Laureate head right</p><p>Rev:- DIVI M P II F P M TR P III COS II P P, Mars advancing to right, holding spear and trophy.</p><p>Minted in Rome A.D. 195</p><p>Reference:- RIC 65. Cohen 123. Calico 2447.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/albums/userpics/10618/RI_064re_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>A quick search online shows a couple of examples of the Aureus (attached below), which have the same obverse die as each other but come from two different reverse dies.</p><p><br /></p><p>My fake comes the same die pair as the Calico 2447 coin. So someone has obtained an aureus from this die pair and has created a fake in silver from it. The fake has been toned and then quite harshly cleaned to try and mask the cast nature of the fake. I haven&#039;t seen this fake before and it isn&#039;t in any of the fake databases I am aware of until I added it to the Forvm fake reports.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]409339[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]409340[/ATTACH] </p><p>Regards,</p><p>Martin[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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