I am not a student or collector of late
Roman coins so do not have a strong opinion regarding the authenticity of this one.
However my uninformed opinion is that I see nothing wrong with the coin.
I believe
Warren E. said there are some erroneous details which betray the
fraud, but he wouldn't reveal them publicly lest he educate the forger.
I think some
had to do with the depiction of the emperor's drapery and shoulderflaps in the
obv. portrait, which however look correct to me.
The long, curving tail of the
phoenix on
rev. is extraordinary and I would want to find parallels for it on unquestionable originals. But looking again, I think the apparent tail below the emperor's hand is actually just a clumsy rendering of
his fingers!
I would have thought the edge fault is just a
flan defect, not damage from a removed mount?