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Author Topic: Milaresion of Leo III: genuine or fake?  (Read 655 times)

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Herberto

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Milaresion of Leo III: genuine or fake?
« on: August 23, 2015, 06:46:42 pm »
Milaresion of Leo III: genuine or fake?

English is not my mother tongue, if you have trouble of understanding me then please say so.
I have two Miliaresions of Leo III with difference grades. – I fear that one of them is maybe fake.

The horizontal line of the cross is longer on the coin on the right side unlike the left one. Also when I lift them to see the reverse side the letters are reversed on the coin on right side.

I don’t know what the weight is, but the diameter is 2,1cm for both coins. – It is Sear 1512

It is perhaps not obvious on the picture so I want to note you that the coin on right side has bumbs and is not completely flat, while the left one is flat.

So anyone here who thinks the coin on the right side is fake?


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Re: Milaresion of Leo III: genuine or fake?
« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2015, 07:01:15 pm »
Both look authentic to me, but isn't the second one Sear 1585, which according to him differs from 1512 mainly in having a longer horizontal bar on the cross?
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Herberto

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Re: Milaresion of Leo III: genuine or fake?
« Reply #2 on: August 24, 2015, 05:17:09 am »
Oh, thank you very much.

I never realized that they were two different coins before you noted it. 

 

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