No I'm not, but since I have never run across this sort of
fake before I am asking
Forum members to give me their opinions.
What I can say is that the
obverse is the same as an existing
obverse: I include a picture below, though the specimen pictured was double struck so it looks a little odd. The
reverse is not like any other
reverse I have seen. My suspicion is, therefore, that it was
cast from a real coin though obviously not from the one pictured below. The coin itself looks perfect to my eyes (and to others' since, as I noted, its been sold through reputable
auction houses twice in the last little while). Any ancient gold fourée I've seen (all here on
Forum) is obviously
fake, either from the
style or the casting process.
I couldn't begin to judge whether it could be ancient and whether such a
good coin could be produced by an ancient forger from a
cast die (the gold appears to be thicker on the
obverse then the
reverse: there's a scrape that shows none of the core there). That's why I'm appealing to the boards for expertise on this matter since I know nothing about the general
quality of ancient gold fourées.
Richard