Nero Sestertius Tooled?

[Mark Z]

This coin was recently sold on *Bay along with several other listings of coins that all seemed to be in the same uniformly "nice" condition.

The hair on this one seems to be tooled. In fact, it looks like he has a headband on.

Am I correct?

mz

[Steve E]

The style of the "laureate" looks strange to me too!

~Steve

[Andrew McCabe]

The style of the "laureate" looks strange to me too!

~Steve

It's a tennis player's headband. No doubt Nero is limbering up for the Olympics. I've tickets for the women's tennis gold-medal match and men's-doubles gold-medal match on 4th August in Wimbledon. I'm curious who will be there. Will Nero be in the Emperor's box alongside the Duchess of Kent, or on the court?

[TRPOT]

The style of the "laureate" looks strange to me too!

~Steve

It's a tennis player's headband. No doubt Nero is limbering up for the Olympics. I've tickets for the women's tennis gold-medal match and men's-doubles gold-medal match on 4th August in Wimbledon. I'm curious who will be there. Will Nero be in the Emperor's box alongside the Duchess of Kent, or on the court?

 

[Robert_Brenchley]

On the court, no doubt, repeating his runaway sucess in the Games of AD 67. Will he be entering a ten-horse chariot this time, I wonder, or did he learn his lesson last time around?

[Mark Z]

Here's another from the same seller, this time a Claudius.

Both sides tooled?

mz

[TRPOT]

Spes looks awful. I can't remember ever seeing a Spes on a Claudius sestertius where you couldn't see her legs clearly through the fabric. It looks like the kind of art you'd expect to see in a coloring book.

[areich]

This is painful to look at. Disgusting.

[Mark Z]

Now, here is one more from the same seller that I could not tell whether or not it had been tooled.

Smoothed?

mz

[Jay GT4]

Nero looks like he belongs on the old 20 minute workout!

[Adrian W]

I had saved that last one as a coin of interest but the fact it was so smooth turned me off to it as I thought as you did it did not look right almost too smooth though I do not propose to be an expert so I could be wrong and it looks fine.

[ickster]

Please tell me they are only doing this to slugs and not to coins that weren't too bad in the first place. 

[Joe Sermarini]

I think sometimes they are doing it to cast fakes to cover up that they are cast fakes. 

[Mark Z]

All,

This time the patina looks very strange, like the coin has been dipped in something.

Or is it just me?

mz

[Salem Alshdaifat]

I think the whole thing is modern fake, it dosent look right !!!
best.
Salem Alshdaifat

[Mark Z]

Here's another one.

mz