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Froakiebloke t1_ixl1wjt wrote

It would be funny if he was still fake but had been made up in the third century rather than much later.

So some guy creates this coin of a made up emperor as some elaborate prank, and then since we can prove it was old enough to be genuine we assume that said emperor was real

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WurthWhile t1_ixmglkz wrote

I have seen counterfeit Roman coins sell for a huge amount of money because they were counterfeited at the time of the Roman empire. Funny how if it's old enough it's almost certainly valuable applies once you reach a couple thousand years old. Including counterfeit money.

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