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strelets

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ID help, Constantine the Great?
« on: February 17, 2011, 09:46:28 am »
Hello,
can you help me to identify this coins? Constantine the Great?
ASIS - what territory is it? What metal is it, copper?
Thanks!!!!
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Re: ID help, Constantine the Great?
« Reply #1 on: February 17, 2011, 09:51:17 am »
Looks like a modern cast fake.
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Re: ID help, Constantine the Great?
« Reply #2 on: February 17, 2011, 09:59:35 am »
Quote from: areich on February 17, 2011, 09:51:17 am
Looks like a modern cast fake.
I would agree.  It still amazes me that anyone would fake coins like this.
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Mark
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Re: ID help, Constantine the Great?
« Reply #3 on: February 17, 2011, 10:15:58 am »
Even if such coins were real and not cast fakes, in such conditions and harshly cleaned they wouldn't be worth more than a couple of $$. Why produce such fakes, perhaps the tourist souvenir trade?
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Re: ID help, Constantine the Great?
« Reply #4 on: February 17, 2011, 10:47:30 am »
I've got one that looks about the same with a completely round edge like a modern coin. I didn't even notice at the time, I just picked it out of the junk box, because it was 'nicely centered'.  :-[  ;D
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Re: ID help, Constantine the Great?
« Reply #5 on: February 17, 2011, 11:16:07 am »
Had it been genuine, SIS would mean Siscia mint, officina  :Greek_Delta:
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Re: ID help, Constantine the Great?
« Reply #6 on: February 17, 2011, 12:06:03 pm »
thanks for your information !
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Re: ID help, Constantine the Great?
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Re: ID help, Constantine the Great?
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