There isn't much to make one suspect, other than it is struck with
aureus dies. If
Curtis hadn't pointed that out, I might be saying I think it is genuine. I don't see anything beyond the
types of things with the
red squares around them above. Normal casting flaws but on a very small
scale. I have
had a few casts of this
quality. In hand, the overall surfaces look wrong on the examples I have
had. But not so wrong that they would automatically condemn the coin. All of the casting flaws are the
type that in most cases I would not notice until I saw a duplicate coin. They are also flaws so similar to what might be found on a genuine coin that it is difficult to decide if they are casting flaws. Unless I noticed the charicteristic surface for these casts or it was an extremely
rare or expensive
type, it would be difficult to spot this as a
fake in the course of day-to-day authentication and
attribution. A few casts of this
quality have made it into Forum's
catalog and been removed from the
catalog when a duplicate was spotted. A couple have been recalled from customers after sale (when it happens, we send an email informing the buyer).