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Joe, any chance of you adding a couple pics of the edge of your piece?
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push." -----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed." -----King Adz
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Pillar of the Community
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Quote: .flan shape, some of the flaws, etc. seem pretty darn close... Amazingly so. Hard to imagine any explanation but one for two identically flawed planchets? And I do think I see some vestiges of that missing letter in the exergue  Great detective work (as always).
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Valued Member
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Looks to be a cast copy from the pictured host coin.You can see that the two halves of the mold were out of alignment when the fake was made, especially at 3 to 5 o'clock in the second picture. Sorry, but not ancient, not rare, and not valuable.
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New Member
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Better pictures;  
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New Member
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I have a question.
If the 3-6 o'clock of the second picture looks like additional material as an indication of a mis-registration then why does the 6-9 o'clock view of the first picture also show additional material?
Could the panchet be overweight?
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Quote: If the 3-6 o'clock of the second picture looks like additional material as an indication of a mis-registration then why does the 6-9 o'clock view of the first picture also show additional material? Clear edge pics (i.e taken of the side of the coin rather than top down) would help us to confirm what you have, although as @badgermint points out, that region of the rim seems odd if this is a real coin. On the coin that @bobl posted, there doesn't seem to be the same extra metal present. Quote: Could the panchet be overweight? Nothing is impossible, but a worn flan with a chunk missing should be underweight, right? Perhaps you can post the weight of this piece so that we have this for comparison?
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push." -----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed." -----King Adz
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My daughter is a photographer but she is very busy and took these pictures at home without her good gear. She said she would try tomorrow in her studio. The coin weights 62g.   
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New Member
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Scale might not be accurate
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With the better pictures I have to change my first comment and agreed it's a copy. There is a prominent line on the edge which would indicate a casting. The two spurs are not a good sign IMO also.
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Pillar of the Community
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 about this being a copy - it matches the Roma specimen enough to either be fake or the same coin, and I don't think they match sufficiently to be the same coin. The edge line, obviously, doesn't help either.
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New Member
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Thanks for everybody's help.
I'm still interested in this coin because as for as I can see it was struck/cast from the same die as the known authentic coin.
I checked with NGC and they said they would accept this coin for grading. I'm checking with NGC to find out how to go about grading.
Joe K.
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Ok good to know. If you can, please follow up with us here on this thread when you get a NGC's opinion. Thx!
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push." -----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed." -----King Adz
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