![]() Rev: AGRIPPINAMATCCAESAVGGERM - Agrippina Sr. RIC 14, BMC 15, S 1825 Denarius Obv: CCAESARAVGGERMPMTRPOT - Laureate head right. Rev: GERMANICVSCAESPCCAESAVGGERM - Germanicus bare head right. RIC 12 Denarius Obv: CCAESARAVGGERMPMTRPOT - Bare head right. RIC 8, BMC 8, C 4 Denarius Obv: CCAESARAVGGERMPMTRPOT - Bare head right. Rev: No legend - Augustus radiate head right star on either side. RIC 2, BMC 4, BN 4, C 11 Denarius Obv: CCAESARAVGGERMPMTRPOTCOS - Bare head right. Rev: No legend - Wreath, SPQR/PP/OBCS within. RIC 27, BMC 29, BN 38, C 20 Aureus Obv: CCAESARAVGPONMTRPOTIIICOSIII - Laureate head right. Rev: GERMANICVSCAESPCAESAVGGERM - Germanicus bare head right. RIC 25, BMC 26, C 6 Aureus Obv: CCAESARAVGPONMTRPOTIIICOSIII - Laureate head right. ![]() RIC 17, BN 27, CalicСѓ 321, C 1 Aureus Obv: CCAESARAVGGERMPMTRPOT - Laureate head right. ![]() RIC 1, C 10 Aureus Obv: CCAESARAVGGERMPMTRPOTCOS - Bare head right. It was only a matter of time before a conspiracy was hatched and he was murdered. He also made no subtleties for his hatred of the Senate, the members of which were objects of his ridicule (or worse). As seen on the erotic movie of the same name, Caligula would take joy in perverse and sadistic acts that often ended in the murder of innocent people. At some point Caligula underwent a transformation, supposedly after an illness that transformed him into a maniacal and cruel person. Instead, Caligula adopted him but never gave him any official role. His granduncle Tiberius had wished Caligula along with Gemellus (Caligula's cousin) to be joint emperors. One of the most enigmatic Roman emperors, the early part of his career had him start out as an ordinary and modest man. Quite often, suspicions can arise on the close examination of any coin for grading.Caligula37 - 41 Caligula's real name was Gaius Caesar but earned the nickname with which he is known by from the type of army boots he wore during childhood. Presence of file marks or fine polishing on the edge of a coin to remove evidence of joins. This has already been done successfully by quite a few times by CCF members.ġ0. Such examples to prove fake can be revealed by a search in the Internet. Provenance and pedigree of a coin, and the reputation of who is selling it.ĩ. Dies can also be made by very skilled hand or mechanical cutting.Ĩ. Close examination with a USB microscope can often reveal this tooling. To remove some of this fuzziness expert tooling is often done on the dies and also on the fake coins produced by them. This can trigger suspicion in a coin made from laser optically scammed models used to make spark eroded dies. This can help confirm or not if the coin is of modern manufacture or not.Ħ. Lack of rough detail inside the split can be a dead giveaway for a cast coin.ĥ. With a struck coin (real or fake), there should be evidence of tensile failure inside the split. Important for what you may find INSIDE the split. Presence of edge joins, either for electrotype joined halves or for edges of moulding.Ĥ. This is the way with lost wax investment casting.ģ. It should be noted that cast fakes tend to be more accurate in style, because the information to produce the coin has been taken directly from a genuine coin. Things to look for when examining a a suspect fake silver coin:Ģ. ![]() I would believe that close examination, looking for silver crystallization, would show this coin to be of modern manufacture. I agree that this piece looks to be cast, and for the reasons mentioned. One of the easiest ways to distinguish such coins from modern fakes is to look for silver crystallization, which can be present in ancient genuine silver coins. These also have a fresh silver appearance, and it may take a century or more to develop a nice patination. Such coins are usually cleaned by professionals in museums, and who know what they are doing. However it must be borne in mind that some freshly recovered from burial silver coins may require acid treatment to remove the inorganic gunk that may have accumulated. These coins had a fresh made looks about them. I have seen some extremely good fake Greek die struck silver come up for auction, albeit described as fake in the lot. ![]()
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