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april_86 Valued Member Poland 63 Posts	Posted 07/30/2015 3:14 pm please help with ID of this sestertius. I identified it as a Faustina Minor coin but never found a sestertius with exactly the same reverse...is this rare? Report this Post to the Staff

pishpash Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 3626 Posts	Posted 07/30/2015 7:11 pm See wildwinds RIC 710, reverse is Commodus and Annius Verus. The coin on wildwinds is a denarius but no reason why there could not be a sestertius. If it is real it should be worth a bit! Report this Post to the Staff
Biancasdad Pillar of the Community United States 1045 Posts	Posted 07/30/2015 7:26 pm This one sold at auction for $500 Not quite the same though, your coin looks like she has some type of diadem http://www.coinproject.com/coin_det...?coin=242439 Edited by Biancasdad 07/30/2015 7:28 pm Report this Post to the Staff
echizento Moderator United States 23731 Posts	Posted 07/30/2015 8:24 pm Can you post the size and weight of the coin? It looks pretty thick. This does appear to be a variation of RIC 1665. Very nice coin. Report this Post to the Staff
Biancasdad Pillar of the Community United States 1045 Posts	Posted 07/31/2015 07:23 am Here is your coin with the diadem on wildwinds with references RIC 1665, Cohen 193, BMC 937 Report this Post to the Staff
Biancasdad Pillar of the Community United States 1045 Posts	Posted 07/31/2015 07:37 am Die match? Edited by Biancasdad 07/31/2015 07:40 am Report this Post to the Staff
FVRIVS RVFVS Pillar of the Community United States 3443 Posts	Posted 07/31/2015 09:29 am I had something nagging in the back of my tiny brain about having seen one of these before. And the debate about its authenticity. It is a very desirable type ! That's the first part of an equation that ends badly. Report this Post to the Staff
april_86 Valued Member Poland 63 Posts	Posted 07/31/2015 11:46 am Why do you think it is fake? I found it myself in Aquileia about 4 days ago thanks for help, later I will put here my other coins I found there. I'm not an expert in this matter Report this Post to the Staff
echizento Moderator United States 23731 Posts	Posted 07/31/2015 12:18 pm Are you allowed to keep these? Report this Post to the Staff
april_86 Valued Member Poland 63 Posts	Posted 07/31/2015 12:51 pm All my coins I found I put to museum Report this Post to the Staff
FVRIVS RVFVS Pillar of the Community United States 3443 Posts	Posted 07/31/2015 1:01 pm I am not "sure" it is fake ! I am just not sure it is real either. I have a faint memory of having seen a fake one of these. The fact that it is a rare and desirable type makes it so much easier to fool someone eager to believe. Burying and or 'antiquing' an ancient coin is one way of making a fake coin real. We recently saw a large silver coin of Syracuse which the owner came into by way of uncertain source. The coin looked really good. The fact that one of identical weight and similar marking led me to believe the same coin had been 'cooked' to make it taste better. It smelled like poop to me. Report this Post to the Staff
FVRIVS RVFVS Pillar of the Community United States 3443 Posts	Posted 07/31/2015 1:06 pm Let me add I am dubious about the photo. Coins look a bit too good to have been freshly pulled from the earth. Two thousand years of oxidation does not usually fall away so easily. Bronze coins require conservation under almost all circumstances. Something does not smell right to me That's the last I will say Perhaps one of our resident detectorists might chime in I will believe what they say Report this Post to the Staff
april_86 Valued Member Poland 63 Posts	Posted 07/31/2015 1:54 pm OK I see that you don't dig... Condition of brass coins can be very different, and according to my small experience (3 years of digging) there is no regularity. From the same field I picked up sestertii and asses (I assume the same period +/- 200 years) completely wrecks. And this one almost mint. Sometimes even 100 yo brass coins look like piece of corroded sheet. A lot of factors included, but for me the greatest is pH of ground, metal composion and the most important - LUCK!! Because scratched by agricultural machines coins corrode quicker. But I don't want to persuade You. Why should I? I don't want to sell it or something. For me it is priceless even if it costed 5$. 1900 years of history!! Report this Post to the Staff
april_86 Valued Member Poland 63 Posts	Posted 07/31/2015 1:58 pm Sorry "BRONZE" coins I meant of course. Report this Post to the Staff
FVRIVS RVFVS Pillar of the Community United States 3443 Posts	Posted 07/31/2015 2:20 pm Nice sharp lettering well centered Full complete legends EF portraits Unencrusted too You have been digging up treasure for 3 years but you "are no expert". Please help ID this sestertius ? The museum has no clue ? This isn't rocket science I think I could go on but ........ Count me sceptical Report this Post to the Staff
april_86 Valued Member Poland 63 Posts	Posted 07/31/2015 2:40 pm the only thing that left me to say is: thank you for appreciate my find ;) better take a look at other (probably rare) sestertius of Manlia Scantilla that I found Mike Report this Post to the Staff
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