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Offline Tibsi

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Gordian III. denar - fake or not?
« on: July 25, 2007, 03:16:41 am »
Hi!

What do you think about it?

Fake or not?

Bye!

Tibsi
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Re: Gordian III. denar - fake or not?
« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2007, 04:16:33 am »
As far as I can tell, this seems to be a copy of an Aureus:

Gordian III AV Aureus. 239 AD. IMP CAES M ANT GORDIANVS AVG, laureate, draped & cuirassed bust right / P M TR P II COS P P, Providentia standing left holding globe & transverse scepter. Cohen 195.

I wont go out on a leg and say this is fake, but let me put it this way: I wouldnt buy it.
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Re: Gordian III. denar - fake or not?
« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2007, 05:09:23 am »
The portrait looks at least unusual.
I don´t like the surface.
How looks the edge??

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Re: Gordian III. denar - fake or not?
« Reply #3 on: July 25, 2007, 07:36:11 am »
There can be no doubt that is is modern.

Lars
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Re: Gordian III. denar - fake or not?
« Reply #4 on: July 25, 2007, 07:56:17 am »
None of my Gordians (and I've got now several dozen) looks like this guy... I'm no expert, but I wouldn't buy it either.

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Ignasi
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Re: Gordian III. denar - fake or not?
« Reply #5 on: August 11, 2007, 03:06:40 pm »
I agree with Lars. It's a modern fake.
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Re: Gordian III. denar - fake or not?
« Reply #6 on: August 11, 2007, 05:41:28 pm »
doesn't appear to be struck.  I don't see the stress lines around the letters.  It is not a sand cast.  centrifugal spin cast maybe?
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