Denarius Judea Capta Authenticity

Don't like the die cutting style of Vespasian's face.
Checked several profiles of Vespasian in Vcoins, for visual comparison.

Profile reminds me to be a bit like that of Tiberius.
Google:
"'Vcoins ancient: 'Tiberius'" for yourself, to get an idea of what I seem to be reminded of.

The human brain is programmed to differentiate fine details of faces, so that we can easily recognize each other.

Pictures too much out of focus to check inside the radial flan cracks looking for tensile metal distress, that is diagnostic, much like the head of a well used cold chisel.
You may be able to check this for yourself with a high powered magnifying glass or loupe.

You need to check against the coin that was pictured, as offered.
Also need to confirm the reputation of the seller.

Since you have some suspicion, you also need an independently provable provenance for the coin itself.

If it is not the original coin you saw in the photos that is more than enough reason to have ebay freeze the funds and ask for a return. Unless the seller only sold one thing on ebay and nothing else ever you get your money back as they hold the paypal funds and paypal demands backup credit card to make sure they can hold funds for bad sales. As for the coin I have set the photos correct and took some of the saturation away below for comparison. As for me, Vespasian must have really lost some weight as you can do an acsearch and you can find a long neck a few times, or you might find a giant unibrow but you never find all this together with cavernous eyes. About 700 photos to see on acsearch. Could be the result of bad tooling but of course, this is not the coin you bid on. Get ebay to freeze the fund by starting a return. I would not want that coin at all. Plus the questions are enough reason for you to worry as your kids will have problems selling it someday. It has red flags with the look of the emperor. Start a return. You will get your money back.

With the better pictures I agree not genuine.

to the Community!

For my information:

How are fakes produced? I suppose that there is a need to have an "original" and making a cast for just one fake coin must take time and be expensive?

Are these people in cahoots with museums?

Chris

The guy needs to be submitted to Joe's NFSL at Forum. He's missing from there and clearly belongs by what he's selling.

chrbaudry
Sorry you had a bad experience with your first ancients purchase. We've all been there, which is why you need to know the coin or the seller. I got hooked on ancients after decades messing around with US coins. I remember thinking that holding a Morgan from the 1890s was amazing. Wait till you hold an actual Judaea Capta minted 1,950 years ago. I did a quick search and there's a Judea Capta type - without the mourning woman - for sale by a legit seller for $95. I paid over $300 for mine from a seller on Vcoins and now see one from a trusted seller for just over $100.

To jskirwin:

Thanks for the reference - I just saw it - In fact I already bought a similar one a few weeks ago and I am happy with it!

Thanks,

Chris