Hello all: As I build a
collection of MA
Legionary denarii, obviously it’s getting harder to find the issues I don’t have. So, I bought my first non-ngc slabbed
Legionary today, the Legion XI pictured through a known UK
auction house. 18 mm, 3.66 gr. 6h. The 12 I have so far mostly are VG and F, with a couple of G and VF too. The
style of this coin looked
good to me and after checking the reviews of the source (a known
Italian dealer), the
Forum fake coin reports, and looking for die matches on asearch, I bid and won. The bidding took the
price into the range of what I’ve seen VG-F coins go for over almost a year now. Call it paranoia, but now I’m seeing things that concern me. There seems to be uneven wear between obv and
rev; the wear on the rev seems too even and there appear to be too few surface scratches on
rev. Finally, note how broad the letters of the
obv legend are compared to the
rev. So, are my concerns well placed or over-worry?
Also, in the grade ranges I can afford any flow lines have been worn away. There can be edge cracks where one can check for inside roughness. What I’m getting to is, are there things to look for in worn
Legionary coins that I’m missing?
Thanks in advance.
Ken
Fake Coins and Notorious Fake Sellers
