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Any Clue What This Thick Coin Could Be

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 Posted 03/21/2016  07:12 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Timmy B to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hey guys

Just looking for help to find out what this coin could be or where I could start looking to find its story.

Thank you

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 Posted 03/21/2016  08:28 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add CrusaderVW to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I'm no expert, but the obverse appears to maybe be Roman. I'd wait for an expert to respond though. Judging by how old the coin looks, I'm a bit concerned at how well aligned it looks to be. In the days when coins were completely made by hand they were never very well aligned and were all completely different.
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It's a fake for sure. Ancient coins did not have rims like yours does--those didn't appear until people started using machines to make coins. Roman coins were made by placing a heated flan (metal disc) on a reverse die fixed to an anvil, then hitting the obverse die onto the flan with a hammer. A human can't exert enough force in this manner to create a rim.

That said, I think your coin is trying to copy a coin of Augustus. I don't recognize the reverse, and I am having trouble making sense of the legend... "PENOI CAES OAV" / "VIAOLO NIAPATE" seems like gibberish to me

Probably some sort of fantasy piece made to be fixed into jewelry.
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 Posted 03/21/2016  12:20 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add echizento to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
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I agree this is not a real coin.
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 Posted 03/21/2016  1:57 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add moxking to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
. Yes, it is a rather poor fake.
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Thanks guys, another treasured fake.

Thank you also for the info on why it would be a fake fin325, makes sense when you explain about the rim.
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As for the design, I think it's trying and failing to resemble a Roman denarius depicting the set of sacrificial implements on the reverse, like this one of Nerva.

It's the sort of thing one might expect when making a modern copy from designs printed in an old book, rather than copying an actual coin.
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