"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.