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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 940815, member: 19463&quot;]My complete inabilities to communicate have been shown in this thread.&nbsp; It was posted to see if folks could separate various degrees and types of unofficial coins.&nbsp; It turned into a popularity contest.&nbsp;&nbsp; I was hoping that someone would recognize F and K as barbarous but ancient copies but they were selected because of their &quot;poor&quot; condition.&nbsp; F is what is known as a &#039;barbarous radiate&#039; copying coins of the later 3rd century Gallo-Roman empire.&nbsp; This Tetricus I/Spes is high grade for these.&nbsp; K is a beautiful copy of the Constantinian Urbs Roma commemorative that I would not have suspected as barbarous except that both Roma and the wolf face left on the real ones.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Coin E, on the other hand, is such a pretty, high grade denarius made in Bulgaria c.2000 AD with style that should fool no one who has experience with denarii of Augustus.&nbsp; E also carries a flag since it is a very popular type commemorating the retrieval of the Roman standards lost by Varus.&nbsp; I do not have one but these are being beat up and sold since the good looking ones are more suspicious to many people.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>During the Renaissance, there was demand for medallions of the Romans hard to come by then in genuine.&nbsp; Some were produced by famous artists of the day either copying rare coins or inventing completely new items.&nbsp; The Septimius is a &#039;later&#039; cast of one of the original &#039;Paduans&#039; while the Pertinax is not known from the records of the series.&nbsp; Both are probably 100-200 years old and have some value in the history of coin collecting even though neither is &#039;ancient&#039;.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I believe this catches my up with what has been mentioned so far.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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