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Antoninus Pius - temple sestertius35 viewsAntoninus Pius fake Sestertius
ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P (TR P XX II)
TEMPLVM DIV AVG REST, S C, COS IIII in ex. temple of Augustus and Livia.
30.60 x 30.00 mm. 26.63 g
The huge giveaway signs are the letters on the reverse.
They all have an indentation around the letters. These indentation are caused by blocks of metal with letters on them which were used to stamp the letters into the metal.
On genuine coins the letters were hand-engraved into the die, and struck together with the rest of the image in one work job, not stamped separately.
Another giveaway are the figures on the reverse. There should only be Augustus and Livia, and not have a child between them.helvetica
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Antoninus Pius Sestertius - RIC III 1004332 viewsObverse: ANTONINVSAVG PIVS PP TRP XXII. Antoninus Pius, Laureate, facing right
Reverse: TEMPLVMDIV AVG REST COS IIII S C, octastyle temple with Augustus and Livia. Unlike the authentic/unmodified coin (as pictured in RIC III, plate VI 114), the Augustus in this thing is hilariously waving at the viewer in this coin. Who knew the Princeps was such a friendly guy?
Sold on eBay on 12/29/2010 for $710 by moonstone_lovely, where it was misidentified as RIC 787 (a rare coin). This coin instead loosk like RIC 1004 (which is more merely scarce according to RIC III). In the opinion of Forvm experts, this coin is at best heavily tooled and repatinated, and most likely the underlying coin that was damaged to make this thing may not have even been an authentic sestertius.fnord123
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Antoninus Pius, Denarius, RIC 143547 viewsObv:- ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P Laureate head right.
Rev:- TEMPLVM DIVI AVG REST Temple of Divus Augustus and Livia, statues within.
RIC 143
Cast fakes sold by fakes seller 'empire_gallery' on eBay. These are not the same coin, but identical cast copies. The top one sold for $23.55 (Nov. 2005) and the bottom one sold for $32.00 (Jan. 2006).postvmvs
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Antoninus Pius, Denarius, RIC 14352 viewsObv:- ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P Laureate head right.
Rev:- TEMPLVM DIVI AVG REST Temple of Divus Augustus and Livia, statues within.
RIC 143
Cast fake.
Sold on ebay by machairidis14 in January 2015maridvnvm
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