claudius AE 20

[sari]

Ae 20 Claudius, any further ID please

[djmacdo]

To me, that coin looks like a modern cast fake.

[Jay GT4]

To me, that coin looks like a modern cast fake.

+1

[sari]

Hmmm,  thank you friends

[henrivd]

Same coin other pictures, coin was bought in auction inhere, never ever bought a fake one of this seller, anybody can make a mistake.
Do these pictures change your opinion?

Henri

[henrivd]

I dont understand why anybody would fake a coin 20mm from Synnada with a relative low value and not a collectable city.

[sari]

I dont understand why anybody would fake a coin 20mm from Synnada with a relative low value and not a collectable city.

Dear Henri
Not only rare coins are faked, to answer your question ,look at these fake coins. Are they rare ? They are the copies of very common coins.
People in Eastern Europe and other places make copies of every ancient coin in hand. It depends how naieve the buyer is.

[djmacdo]

It still looks like a cast bronze to me.

[djmacdo]

It has that soapy, lack of definition between field and type that is common on casts.

[henrivd]

Ok thnx, you win some, and lose some, np.

[areich]

It looked like a cast in the first pictures but from the new ones, I think it's genuine.

[henrivd]

That is a positive developement, as i said, never had trouble with this dealer.

What makes you think it is genuine Andreas?

[Joe Sermarini]

I think it is more likely genuine than cast, but please do not ask me why I think so. It is actually a very difficult question to answer. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. It could take me many hours of thought to come up with the appropriate thousand words to explain what I see in a glance.