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 | | Description: Ancient Roman Imperial Bronze Aquilia Severa Sestertius Fake die |
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| Item : 13219 | | Description |
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| Description : Ancient Roman Imperial Bronze Aquilia Severa Sestertius | | Aquilia Severa, second and fourth wife of Elagabalus. . Sestertius, 19.27g. (h). Rome, Late 220 AD. Obv: IVLIA AQVILIA SEVERA AVG Bust draped right with ealry coiffure and wearing stephane. Rx: CONCORDIA S - C Concordia standing left holding in right hand patera above lighted and garlanded altar, and in left hand double cornucopia; star in right field. BM 433, pl. 96.8 (same obv. die). Cohen 4 (120 Fr., with engraving, same obv. die). RIC 390 | | Authenticity: Forgery - Modern | | Category : Ancient Roman Imperial - Coins | | | | Category Details | | Source | | Category : Ancient | | Sold as: Authentic | | : Roman Imperial | | Entered by : Amentia | | : | | http://www.sixbid.com/browse.html?auction=2013&category=41078&lot=1745054 | | Key Info | | Condemnation | Denomination : Sestertius
| | Withdrawn, fake die used to make this fake is 13284:
http://www.numismatikforum.de/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=11495&start=5850
curtislclay wrote:
"1. A nice sale, but unfortunately the Aquilia Severa sestertius, lot 480, appears to be from known modern (Bulgarian) dies, this example “aged” and corroded to make it more deceptive.
Compare the attached photo from the Fake Reports of Forvm Ancient Coins. On this EF strike from the modern dies, the crude, non-Roman and non-ancient style is obvious.
2. Despite the alleged provenance (“old Spanish collection”), the coin is without any doubt from the same modern Bulgarian dies that I showed in the attachment.
It is a modern fake, produced within the last couple of decades. I think you will save yourself a lot of bother by withdrawing it!
3. Would you say that your coin is from the same dies or different dies than the Bulgarian fake I attached to my first post?
If from the same dies, how can it be authentic?
According to my casts and photos of several dozen Aquilia Severa sestertii, her authentic sestertii were struck from only two obverse dies. The Bulgarian die of your coin is of course not among them.
The fake dies copy the genuine dies shown by BMC V, pl. 96.8. Note for example the position of the star on the reverse almost touching the C of S – C. By mistake or as embellishment, the forger transformed Concordia’s solid altar into a tripod altar." Forgery Type: pressed | Emperor : Aquilia Severa
| Content : Bronze
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