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Me as well. Not sure what happened. I wonder if they got hacked...?

I would agree with the celestial sphere. I see a crescent moon surrounded by stars. My other thought was that it was a shield, but the celestial sphere makes more sense. It reminds me of a similar reverse of Hadrian with a crescent moon and stars (not my coin).

Agree with everyone here that the Leu coin looks genuine but the EBay coin is clearly a cast fake. However, both are identical even in terms of the weakness of the lettering on the obverse. I would agree with those speculating that the Leu coin may be the mother of the cast forgery, but l would now also be more hesitant in bidding on the Leu coin. Great catch, but scary for all of us collectors. I agree with Doug Smith's prescient categorization...

Great coin! Fantastic portrait and reverse!

Wow, nice example! I wonder what its provenance is?

Portrait style on the fouree looks more like Hadrian or Trajan, but the lettering doesn't add up. It could be Antoninus Pius, but the portrait doesn't match up to that either. I guess your attribution makes the most sense based on what you can discern from the legend.

Love Titus' portrait on that tetradrachm!

Thanks to everyone for your feedback, it's much appreciated! Like @JAZ Numismatics and @JayAg47, I was on the fence on whether to bid, but the UK limitation basically solved that dilemma for me.

Hello Everyone, I was watching this EBay UK lot which I unfortunately couldn't bid on, as it was limited to UK bidders only. The bottom left coin is a very worn lifetime Julius Caesar denarius. The lot went for GBP 167. Thoughts on whether it was a deal or not? I would have paid more. What does everyone else think?

looks ok to me

Yes, that was my thought as well... money laundering. I wonder if EBay checks for this stuff, or if they allow it to happen?

Thanks @Coinmaster. That would make some sense, as the coin reportedly came from a British collection (I acquired it from a UK dealer). I have not been able to find another like it, but the reverse and obverses exist on a handful of coins, as discussed in this thread. I hope that at some point, more detailed research will be done of this coinage to shed some more light on how they relate to the events of the period.

Aligns well with my earlier related thread on a 68 AD Galba civil war denarius from Tarraco, Spain:

You can find coins of Postumus in quite nice condition for decent prices. You can get ones in similar condition to the two you have on EBay France for EUR 20 or so if you're patient. I got this one for EUR 13 a few years ago.

The wear on the obverse looks legit to me, and the reverse may have been softly struck. I'm wondering about the two chunks behind Galba's head though... die flaws? They don't look like casting bubbles; in fact, the surfaces look ok to me. I would say it's a genuine piece, but fakes these days have become increasingly convincing... The scratch does seem odd and out of place.