Christina Solidus - Real or Contemporary Counterfeit? [Resolvido]

Good day,

I bought this coin labelled as a solidus issued by Christina of Riga, but I feel convinced it is this contemporary counterfeit instead. However, I would like another opinion since hammered coins in circulated condition can have a lot of variability.

The coin is quite coppery, and I cannot read a year digit after the "4". The legend is worn, but I can't even make out the ghost of a second number - the counterfeit was apparently issued with a year as just "4". The legend also has a rather skewed orientation compared to most examples of the real coin I've seen photos of. Of course, the strike is also pretty crude, not comically bad like on some counterfeits but bad. The "G" in DGRS is also very crude, it overlaps the encircling line beneath it and is misaligned with the "RS" after.

Please let me know what you think, my gut tells me contemporary counterfeit but I am cautious about jumping to conclusions.

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Who would try to counterfeit such a cheap coin does not make sense to me.
The only explanation would be if the intention was to falsify with -counterfeits that have been created once in history and are far rarer.
Suceava counterfeit-In 1662, under the reign of Eustratie Dabija (1661-1665), the Suceava mint was re-opened in Moldovia (modern-day Romania). With the help of mintmaster Tito Livio Burattini.
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/exonumia185969.html

Why do I think it's an imitation?
coin circulation wear should be logical -and here I see twice two letters next to each other where one is worn much and the other not at all.
The patina doesn't convince me either, and that flattening of letters is too sharp an edge.

This is a detail from your coin in the second picture that you see two letters next to each other and different-depth of wear without damage.



Here I picked out a box I think two are the same type and three are also the same period and look at the letters:


Ivan

I agree with your assessment.

While these were made of fairly low grade billon, none of mine look so copper-y. As you point out, the absence of the last digit is a common "tell;" as Ivan points out, there are issues with wear pattern. You can also see the punctuation is wrong.

Thank you Ivan and Tdziemia, it seems everyone agrees on what this most likely is.

Easiest way to determine suceava fakes is the dates which doesnt match any offically minted dates for the real soliduses