Can anybody be sure with coins like this one here, whether it is even genuine?
I think so. It is consistent with one of the two dies for this
type except for the
face and some heavy
smoothing around the
legend and major devices. Unless it is a forgery copying a real die that was later
tooled...but that doesn't make sense to me.
I see a lot of Sileraioi litrai
tooled. I think they were generally weakly struck at the
face of the
man-faced bull, and that is often the
area where toolers focus, because who wants a coin of a
man-faced bull with no
face? There is also one definite
fake die for the Sileraioi, published on
Forvm and discussed in another
thread, and one suspected, see the second to last two coins here, which appeared on the market only recently and are of a
style inconsistent with known Sileraioi bronzes:
http://manfacedbulls.wordpress.com/uncertain-2/