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petersx34 New Member United States 3 Posts	Posted 05/09/2013 11:00 pm Hi all! I found this coin a few years ago and have yet to discover what it really is. So I came here for your expertise! I have looked all over the internet but I can't find a coin with the matching reverse side. The lettering that I can make out reads "CONSTANT". Report this Post to the Staff

echizento Moderator United States 23731 Posts	Posted 05/09/2013 11:42 pm to the community Sorry to say but this is not a real coin, but a know fake that we see here often. Report this Post to the Staff
petersx34 New Member United States 3 Posts	Posted 05/09/2013 11:55 pm Do you have any other information on it? Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16827 Posts	Posted 05/10/2013 12:01 am Correct. The two sides of this replica are actually taken from two different coins which were struck several centuries apart. The Obverse is taken from a late Roman bronze coin, circa AD 320. The reverse is taken from a Judaean coin struck in the name of the emperor Nero, circa AD 60. As echizento said, we've seen them here on the forum before. Here's one. I don't know where these particular replicas have come from, but they appear to have been mass-produced; they have a machine-struck sameness to them. 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 Report this Post to the Staff
petersx34 New Member United States 3 Posts	Posted 05/10/2013 12:12 am Well thank you, both of you! Even though it is fake, it's still pretty neat so I won't scrap it. But if you wanted to know how I found it, it's pretty bizarre. I was probably around 7 years old when I found it (I'm 20 now). I was playing with a Buzz Light Year spaceship my mom had bought me and I decided to rip it apart. When I did, I heard something rattling around inside and then it popped out! So this was found in a child's toy about 13 years ago. Useless information but pretty strange! Report this Post to the Staff
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