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Valued Member
United States
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Is this Julian, tooled, or manipulated in any way since it seems so pristine. If not, how does one look for obvious signs of tooling? Examples?  |
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Moderator
 United States
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Doesn't look tooled to me. The condition is excellent, one of the nicest I've seen. Quite valuable.
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Pillar of the Community
Russian Federation
5172 Posts |
That's definitely one for the bearded guy thread... didn't even know there were any non-Johannes bearded emperors that late in Roman history.
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United States
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Well, I for one would view this as highly suspicious as too good to be true. If it was found on ebay, I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole. However, if it was from a reputable dealer my credit card would be a blur. If it is real, it is absolutely gorgeous. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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January, there's also Eugenius (a rare usurper) and I think there might be another but I'm probably wrong.
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Moderator
United States
23731 Posts |
There are at least half a dozen high grade Julian II bull coins on ebay. I didn't see this one there. I checked the fake reports and I didn't find this there, not to say it just hasn't been added yet. I think this one is OK but as good as the the forgers have gotten it's really difficult to say without an expert opinion. |
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Pillar of the Community
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Not tooled, but have to agree with the comments from 'pishpash' and 'echizento'.
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 United States
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United States
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$650 plus premium ....... ouch ! Who lives there? That is a telephone number, isn't it? Nice coin though. |
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Australia
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I do not think that this coin has been tooled.
I think that I DO see some minor signs of encrustation having been removed around the letters 'SRE' by mechanical means of a hand held scraper of some sort or other.
Nevertheless, I would NOT regard what I see here as 'tooling' of the coin, in a spurious attempt to improve it.
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Posted 11/03/2014 3:13 pm
