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Author Topic: Roman Countermarked - Contemporary Counterfeit?  (Read 662 times)

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Offline dpaul7

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Roman Countermarked - Contemporary Counterfeit?
« on: November 23, 2007, 08:02:36 pm »
Hi!

I'm posting this for a friend in Portugal - The folks there thought the coin was a contemporary imitation. (I think based on the reverse lettering).  Can someone comment?  Authentic?

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Re: Roman Countermarked - Contemporary Counterfeit?
« Reply #1 on: November 24, 2007, 03:56:14 am »
These coins had been imitated in bigger quantities, see two eamples in my contemporary-imitations-gallery:

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