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FilthyBroke · June 22, 2008 8:04AM

Aethelred · June 22, 2008 9:36AM

What is the weight & diameter of yours?

ajaan · June 22, 2008 9:40AM

Being in an ICG slab, I would say there is a 95% probability of it being authentic.

Aethelred · June 22, 2008 9:44AM

You are right Don, that does look like an ICG slab.

ajaan · June 22, 2008 9:49AM

I believe in his original post he said it was ICG graded.

FilthyBroke · June 22, 2008 10:16AM

<< <i>I believe in his original post he said it was ICG graded. >>

Yeah, it's ICG.....I didn't want it to sound like I was slamming them or anything. I like ICG, but the man I talked to seemed not as enthusiastic about it.

FilthyBroke · June 22, 2008 10:22AM

On the site I linked to, I came VERY close to an obverse (Medusa head) match on #8, 42, and one other I think. No similar reverse (anchor) that I could see.

CIVITAS · June 24, 2008 3:16AM

They are very similar, but they are not exact matches. Similar enough to raise some concern as there are stylistic elements very similar to the forgeries, but no concrete evidence that your coin is a forgery. I have the books referenced by the website writeup and I couldn't find a die match in there either.

FilthyBroke · June 24, 2008 8:08AM

Thanks guys for looking into this for me, I appreciate it. I didn't realize that there was an issue with counterfeits of this coin until last weekend. Very interesting....I'll need to do more research in this area to know what to look for.

So much to learn!

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