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Offline Marcus Aurelius

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Nepotianus
« on: April 29, 2016, 02:08:30 pm »
This coin is offered to me,but i am not sure is it authentic.
What do you think?
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Re: Nepotianus
« Reply #1 on: April 29, 2016, 02:21:12 pm »
looks very fake to me

better post it here

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?board=9.0
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Re: Nepotianus
« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2016, 07:12:15 am »
It appears to be genuine, but the obverse has been horribly tooled. Maybe it was a genuine, but corroded Nepotian, although I wonder if it might actually have started as a Magnentius.

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Re: Nepotianus
« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2016, 09:03:16 am »
Quote from: Pscipio on April 30, 2016, 07:12:15 am
I wonder if it might actually have started as a Magnentius.

Lars

It was my first thought
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Re: Nepotianus
« Reply #4 on: May 02, 2016, 04:54:16 pm »
The lettering is also pretty bad.

Sheesh, if you are going to make one side so smooth and shiny at least touch the other side up a bit too!  Instead they clearly found an original with the right reverse type and thought that leaving it untouched would improve its chances despite obviously tooling the obverse.

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Re: Nepotianus
« Reply #5 on: May 02, 2016, 06:10:34 pm »
Even if it was once an genuine ancient coin, it is now worthy of a fake coin report. If genuine, it has been destroyed.
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