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Author Topic: Ancient counterfiet of unique Commodus denarius with Janus  (Read 733 times)

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Offline timka

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Ancient counterfiet of unique Commodus denarius with Janus
« on: September 09, 2015, 07:31:37 am »
Hi!

When I was buying this one from very poor pictures I still hoped that it could be an authentic one. No. When it arrived it became clear this was a fourrée :(. Still, it is a counterfiet of the Commodus denarius with Janus on rev. that is not listed in RIC, Cohen, RSC, and is known as single specimen, according to acsearch:

http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=454636

My coin: 2,66g - 18mm - 180' (see all legends, etc in above acsearch link).

Cheers,

Z.
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Re: Ancient counterfiet of unique Commodus denarius with Janus
« Reply #1 on: September 13, 2015, 11:37:24 pm »
Hi tim,

That's an interesting reverse! :)

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Re: Ancient counterfiet of unique Commodus denarius with Janus
« Reply #2 on: September 26, 2015, 09:53:21 pm »
A second genuine example has just turned up, found by a metal-detectorist, I believe.
I have just added it to the NAC example on wildwinds.
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Re: Ancient counterfiet of unique Commodus denarius with Janus
« Reply #3 on: September 27, 2015, 04:39:40 am »
At the INC there was a poster session on coins of Commodus featuring Janus. Quite a few examples in silver and bronze were shown, most with reverses akin to the coin in this thread, but I only snapped a pic of a Janus headed obverse:

https://twitter.com/AMcCabeCoins/status/646591775386304512
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