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Bedrock of the Community
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I have been looking at this coin and have no experience with ancient coin. I thought I should ask the experts. I am thinking there is a good chance it is some sort of copy .. but it was in a collection with some other authentic older coins. Thank you in advance for any information you care to share    Edited by GR58
08/04/2012 7:17 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I think the obverse of your "coin" is that of Constantine I, but, to be honest, I cannot be certain it is not one of the other of the Constantine Dynasty. The reverse I've seen before, but not on a late Imperial coin. If I could just recall where I've seen that symbol...
Anyway, I con't think your coin is genuine. Perhaps someone else will come along and ID the reverse or even prove me wrong.
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Pillar of the Community
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I know what the reverse is. It's a coin from Judea, when Rome was in control.
The reverse resembles this one, Antoninus Felix, procurator of Judea. Two crossed shields and spears.
That's my opinion. I've seen this fake before a few months ago.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I've seen it before too, but I couldn't put my finger on it. The one you saw, was it with a Constantine obverse?
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This piece shows up often, it is a fantasy piece of what is supposed to be Constantine I. The reverse doesn't exist for any coins of Constantine. Sorry but it's a fake.
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Pillar of the Community
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If I recall correctly there was one like this posted here on the forum a while back.
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Pillar of the Community
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You have a good memory, Doucet. I found one of these a year or two ago at a coin show and posted a picture of it. When this one was posted I just couldn't remember what was on the obverse of the one I posted back then. I remember it being identified as a fake. Lordymercy, my memory is just not what it used to be. I went back, but couldn't find the thread. Oh well, at least we all remember it as a fake.
And they say memory is the second thing to go. I can't remember what's the first!
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Bedrock of the Community
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Thank you all for the replies .. I was thinking the reverse looked
to good of condition to be real.
At least now I know for sure ..I will put it in the fake box
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The example posted on the forum earlier, which others remember but nobody posted links to, can be found here. There's another older thread with one here, though the reverse pic has expired. The reverse is based on a Judaea coin from the time of Nero. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Posted 08/04/2012 8:51 pm
