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Offline Victor

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fake Constantine SPES PVBLIC from Constantinople
« on: April 25, 2021, 07:35:57 PM »
this coin is currently up for auction from Numismatik Naumann. It started life as a campgate though. You can see the blocks on the snakes body. They do have it described as "tooled" so that is something...but wow, that reverse is really bad-- what are they thinking?  :P 

 
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Re: fake Constantine SPES PVBLIC from Constantinople
« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2021, 09:15:43 PM »
Good eye on the bricks in the snake body. You would think an auction house with a high dollar coin would do at least as much due diligence.
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Re: fake Constantine SPES PVBLIC from Constantinople
« Reply #2 on: April 25, 2021, 09:47:03 PM »
Lars Ramskold had an article in the Celator in 2009 about one of these tooled campgates. I imagine that this one will be pulled shortly, but it is odd that they even listed it.

below is another example with the undertype visible that sold a few years ago on eBay,

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Re: fake Constantine SPES PVBLIC from Constantinople
« Reply #3 on: April 26, 2021, 11:38:29 AM »
If I’m going to fake a SPES, I would sure tool a better Chi-Rho!
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