Well, the riddle is not solved yet.
Is the coin posted by DIN (
RIC VI ALEXANDRIA 135b;
CNG eAuction 352, lot 522, 9.77 g, 25 mm) the genuine half-prototype for this forgery (I mean for
reverse)? Or maybe also its authenticity is dubious? This specimen is very heavy.
OCRE gives for this
type average weight 6.48 g.
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The first fake (this green-yellow one) is from Münzkabinett der Universität Göttingen. And now I found in the same
collection coin from the same dies as
CNG piece (with characteristic "L" in "
VAL" in
obv. legend).
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The obvious question is: why forger used only
reverse and joined it with rather ugly
obverse?
Any thoughts?