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TucNM New Member United States 2 Posts	Posted 01/10/2008 9:35 pm Greetings, I've been doing a lot of searching trying to find out anything regarding the following coin and have exhausted everything I've thought to try. If anyone is able to give me an idea regarding origin, date, denomination, et al, I would greatly appreciate it. Following are the front and reverse of the coin: Many thanks for any input you can provide, Sean. *Edited by Forum Dad to fix image code.* Edited by TucNM 01/10/2008 9:41 pm Report this Post to the Staff

Sap Moderator Australia 16808 Posts	Posted 01/10/2008 10:11 pm Sadly, what you've got here is a modern imitation of an ancient Roman coin. The design is that of a silver denarius of emperor Marcus Aurelius; here's what it should look like. Several things give this coin away as a modern reproduction: - the perfectly round shape. Ancient coins simply were never made like this. - the wrong metal. The master coin this coin was copied from was silver. Bronze coins of this period always had "S C" marked prominently on the reverse field, like this one does. - the portrait is just wrong. The neck is a line-drawing - no sculpture at all, no 3-D effect. - parts of the design are missing, and the attempts to reproduce what was there don't match. For instance, on the reverse, the top half of the lettering above Victory is missing, and the "border" switches from beads to a solid line. This was presumably because the coin this was copied from had those parts missing, due to being struck off-centre. 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
TucNM New Member United States 2 Posts	Posted 01/11/2008 02:00 am Thank you very much for your quick response, Sap. :) Shame it's not authentic after all but on the plus side it was found next to my house so at least it wasn't something I purchased and took a loss on. I was at wits end trying to get my own info about it and you had all the answers and more. Many thanks to you for that. It's better knowing it's a fake than not knowing anything at all. Thanks, Sean. Report this Post to the Staff
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