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wbarkley Valued Member United States 71 Posts	Posted 02/22/2016 11:16 pm I received this coin as a gift. I can't tell if it is real or much of anything about it really. Report this Post to the Staff

FVRIVS RVFVS Pillar of the Community United States 3443 Posts	Posted 02/23/2016 12:30 am It may have been a "real" coin ...... I see so much tooling though that the patination can't be genuine. Therefore it makes everything about it suspect in my eyes. Extremely rare type issue and rarely seen so well executed i.e. centered and evenly struck. Report this Post to the Staff
FVRIVS RVFVS Pillar of the Community United States 3443 Posts	Posted 02/23/2016 12:37 am It probably is "genuine" in the sense that it is actually what it pretends to be ! But a lot of sculpting has been done and artificial patination put on it (a few coats of enamel ?) Sort of like taking a 2,000 year old blank papyrus scroll and adding hieroglyphics. Yes the scroll is genuine ancient But all the details are modern Report this Post to the Staff
echizento Moderator United States 23731 Posts	Posted 02/23/2016 08:57 am Couldn't have said it any better than FR. Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16849 Posts	Posted 02/23/2016 4:57 pm Sorry, but I'm seeing a cast fake, not a genuine-but-tooled coin. The legend is very mushy, the reverse details are kind of melting into the background and there are raised bumps (casting bubbles) in the obverse field. I suspect the "tooling" effect comes about from being a copy-of-a-copy, with the details getting so mushy they had to be "augmented" somewhere in the duplication process. 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
FVRIVS RVFVS Pillar of the Community United States 3443 Posts	Posted 02/23/2016 5:07 pm I was inclined to think cast fake myself. Bronze does not cast the same as silver and copper. Generally cast bronze requires 'machining'. But on second look I thought the side view appeared very much like a genuine sestertius of the period. Either way I put it in the category of novelty paperweight ! Report this Post to the Staff
Athalbert Pillar of the Community Spain 629 Posts	Posted 02/23/2016 7:08 pm Cast fake Report this Post to the Staff
Spence Moderator United States 34428 Posts	Posted 02/23/2016 7:55 pm If this was a real Roman coin at some point, what could you reasonably expect the thickness to be now? I don't have many Roman bronzes, but most are considerably thinner than this one. I guess some of the Roman provincials are quite thick. "If you climb a good tree, you get a push." -----Ghanaian proverb "The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed." -----King Adz Report this Post to the Staff
wbarkley Valued Member United States 71 Posts	Posted 02/23/2016 11:24 pm Thanks for the input! I had a sneaking suspicion. Report this Post to the Staff
sel_69l Bedrock of the Community Australia 21788 Posts	Posted 02/24/2016 12:08 am My initial suspicion was initiated by it being too round. Report this Post to the Staff
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