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Author Topic: Denarius legion CLASSICAE => fake ?  (Read 548 times)

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Offline giamilos

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Denarius legion CLASSICAE => fake ?
« on: March 07, 2019, 03:01:07 am »
Hi

Could you please give me your feeling about this denarius sold by a french professionnal ?

Weight : 3.77g

Thanks in advance for your help

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Re: Denarius legion CLASSICAE => fake ?
« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2019, 07:21:23 pm »
To me the surface looks very suspicious, either it is a fake or it seems to have been entirely smoothed or some how treated?  Do the fields look unnaturally flat?

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Re: Denarius legion CLASSICAE => fake ?
« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2019, 07:22:36 pm »
Perhaps it is just the uniform flat grey surface that it bothering me.  To me, it just looks strange.

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Re: Denarius legion CLASSICAE => fake ?
« Reply #3 on: March 10, 2019, 07:59:51 pm »
Looks off to me as well

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Re: Denarius legion CLASSICAE => fake ?
« Reply #4 on: March 12, 2019, 10:04:03 am »
Hi !

Thanks for your quick feedback.

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Re: Denarius legion CLASSICAE => fake ?
« Reply #5 on: March 12, 2019, 10:48:04 am »
My thoughts as well

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