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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 942631, member: 19463&quot;]Rather than allowing this to die a noble death, I&#039;ll cover the two coins no one found of interest just in case someone happens on this thread later and might benefit.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coin G is a replica made by the famous copyist Peter Rosa who worked mostly in the 1960&#039;s an decades that followed.&nbsp; He died in 1990.&nbsp; His work is extensively covered in Wayne Sayles&#039; excellent book on fakes, <b>Classical Deception</b>.&nbsp; Rosa never sold his fakes as real but refused to mark them and might be the major factor that led to the US law requiring copies to be marked (which meant mainstream publications refused his ads for copies).&nbsp; Many of Rosa&#039;s copies were copied from originals of the earlier German copy-master Becker.&nbsp; Rosa made both casts and struck copies using silver, lead, pewter and even plaster as the medium.&nbsp; There are thousands of variations on his work and it is not a bad idea to check his catalog before buying something he copied.&nbsp; My Nero example G is as poor as his get being cast in white metal.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, coin I, is a struck ancient plated copy of the Limes type.&nbsp; The coin shows a very small patch or remaining silver.&nbsp; The dies were original and cut by someone with skill.&nbsp; The obverse legend is correct for Clodius Albinus but the face sure looks like Septimius Severus (who never is shown with a bare head).&nbsp; The reverse is very normal looking but belongs to Commodus and is a couple years older than should be used with that obverse.&nbsp; This mismatching is not at all rare with Severan era copies.&nbsp; The coin could be classed as quite rare but almost no one cares.&nbsp; I bought this one from the estate of a collector who helped me a lot in my earlier days so it is special to me.&nbsp; I would enjoy seeing other fourree/limes coins of Clodius Albinus if you run across them.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks to those who participated in this. I made a half dozen images with questions that turned out to be unwanted for their intended audience so I used the photo here rather than just writing it off as a total loss.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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