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Offline Din X

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Akragas fake tetradrachm
« on: June 25, 2017, 07:11:38 am »
"Struck from modern dies. The obverse die is too large and flat. Generally, the letters in the original are confidently, but lightly made; in the counterfeit die they are recut and have a thicker, less graceful, more regular appearnce. Note the letter N; it is recut with the vertical strokes nearly the same length in the counterfeit; on the original the left stroke id only half as long as the right one. The head and neck of the bird have been touched up in the new die and have become slimmer in the process.

The reverse incuse is deeper than on any of the published speciments of this die. The die break on the edge of the incuse below the crab which occurs on all these specimens has been tooled off in the counterfeit die.

Published in the IAPN BOC Vol 13, No. 1 in 1988 - example 1
Image used with permission of IAPN"

It seems like recutted dies are modern dies for IAPN.

These fakes should not have fooled anyone but no matter how bad a fake is there will be always an auction houses that offers it.

Picture 2 was sold by very reputable US auction house, the N is reutted on these dies and longer etc.

But why is this such an obvious fake, they have recutted the letters and now the letters are sharp and NO flow lines and blurring around the letters and no flow lines appeared so far in the dies becasue they were pressed. 


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Re: Akragas fake tetradrachm
« Reply #1 on: July 07, 2017, 05:14:20 am »
In BOCs is written that this fake dies are supposed to be from some kind of plastic which is absolute nonsense.
Letters have been recutted into the metal die not into the "wax or plastic" impression which was taken from the authentic host to make the dies from it.

 

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