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Spotting What's Wrong With This Coin Being Sold On Ebay....

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 Posted 08/03/2014  08:45 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add bobbyhelmet to your friends list
It seems to be missing 'CAES', looks more like 'CM?' after the 'IMP'.

By no means an expert on his coinage but don't they all start 'IMP CAES...'?
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 Posted 08/03/2014  08:46 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add pishpash to your friends list
Not Macrinus is it?
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 Posted 08/03/2014  08:58 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add bobbyhelmet to your friends list
I thinks thats a nail on the head moment pishpash

I didn't think it looked like Pescennius but was looking at Septimius coins myself, though one might have been butchered.
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 Posted 08/03/2014  08:58 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Biancasdad to your friends list
IMP C M OPEL SEV MACRINVS AVG
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 Posted 08/03/2014  09:15 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add maridvnvm to your friends list
First part solved. It is Macrinus.

Given this, what else is wrong?
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 Posted 08/03/2014  09:23 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add pishpash to your friends list
The seller sold this coin as a PN but according to the legend is a Didius Julianus, although I can't find the type
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ROMAN-COI...047675.l2557
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 Posted 08/03/2014  09:26 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add pishpash to your friends list
Wildwinds only has one example of this coin, and it doesn't have a nose like Nerva?
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 Posted 08/03/2014  09:33 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add maridvnvm to your friends list
I'll put you out of your misery as the next bit is tough. I recognised the dies as being entirely modern. The coin has been artifically worn and comes from the dies that made the following modern copy.

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 Posted 08/03/2014  09:37 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add pishpash to your friends list
It is a fake? It is very round? It looks quite thick, the examples I have seen are quite thin? Put us out of our misery!
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 Posted 08/03/2014  09:39 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add maridvnvm to your friends list
Look in my post above yours....
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 Posted 08/03/2014  09:45 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add pishpash to your friends list
Yes we crossed. Definitely something off about this seller.
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 Posted 08/03/2014  12:13 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add chrsmat71 to your friends list


i remember seeing that first coin on ebay pish....was scared of it.
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 Posted 08/03/2014  12:28 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add pishpash to your friends list
Some of the coins have clear legends but the seller miss-attributes them, presumably so the buyer is so taken up with getting a bargain they don't look at the coin properly.
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 Posted 08/03/2014  12:36 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add echizento to your friends list
Good job Pish, I thought the legend didn't look right.
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