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Fake or not - Pius sestertius
« on: August 23, 2007, 01:06:08 pm »
Hi,
I found a fake-suspicious sestertius on ebay.de. If I know well Libertas never holds caduceus on roman coins. What do you think about it?

Mike
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Re: Fake or not - Pius sestertius
« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2007, 01:25:49 pm »
It should be a scepter, BMC 1141, Cohen 547.

It could be a genuine sestertius, the snakes just being tooled in to transform the scepter into a caduceus.
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Re: Fake or not - Pius sestertius
« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2007, 02:04:10 pm »
Thank you very much, Curtis.

Mike
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