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Author Topic: PERTINAX on ebay  (Read 2211 times)

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BluesScale

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PERTINAX on ebay
« on: June 16, 2004, 08:02:39 pm »
A member here (Thank you, Mike) pointed out that the reserve on this coin is foolishliy low - and the dealer is brand new

Now I look, the detail looks wrong to me - cast rather than worn

Opinions sought, please!


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Re:PERTINAX on ebay
« Reply #1 on: June 16, 2004, 08:26:35 pm »
    This "denarius" is condemned as a cast not only by its appearance, but by the fact that it is struck from aureus not denarius dies.
    Its obverse die is the same as that of the aureus M&M 66, 1984, 673 in our photofile.
     But by this time aureus dies had become larger and finer than denarius dies.  The two denominations had their own dies and no longer shared them, as they generally had done up until the early years of Domitian's reign.
     The eBay coin in question is a modern silver cast of an authentic Pertinax aureus.
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