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Macrinus Match - I'm assuming a fake
« on: November 20, 2021, 06:53:32 pm »
Had this in my collection for awhile, but I'm really not interested in provincials so I never gave it much thought. Today, I think I found a match for sale on eBay and therefore, I'm assuming this is a fake. In fact, I'm thinking a lot of this sellers coins are fakes.
 Macrinus AD 217-218, AE17 of Nikopolis ad Istrum.
AVT KM OPELLI CEVH MAKRINOC, laureate head right.
NIKOPOLITWN PROC ICTR, Harpokrates, naked, standing left, holding cornucopiae and raising right hand to his mouth.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/meteoritestuff/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=
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Re: Macrinus Match - I'm assuming a fake
« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2021, 08:10:10 pm »
Looks like they came out of the same casting mold.
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Re: Macrinus Match - I'm assuming a fake
« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2021, 08:17:16 pm »
Good (though I'm sure dissapointing) find. I suspect both coins are fake.
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Re: Macrinus Match - I'm assuming a fake
« Reply #3 on: November 20, 2021, 09:36:45 pm »
One may be the “mother,” from which the mold was made. Hard to tell from the pictures.
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Re: Macrinus Match - I'm assuming a fake
« Reply #4 on: November 21, 2021, 07:52:46 am »
One of a bunch of cast coins with similar surfaces from the same seller.
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Re: Macrinus Match - I'm assuming a fake
« Reply #5 on: November 21, 2021, 08:36:21 am »
Fake coin reports please.

Nomination for the seller?
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Re: Macrinus Match - I'm assuming a fake
« Reply #6 on: November 21, 2021, 09:09:22 am »
Thanks all for the replies. Unfortunately, another black box addition. :(
Fake coin reports done.
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Re: Macrinus Match - I'm assuming a fake
« Reply #7 on: November 21, 2021, 08:35:11 pm »
Thanks paps.
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