As written before in previous post the mother could well be
tooled and smoothed and the
legend and other details modified but this is hard to tell form pictures, but surface does not look untouched on
Gorny piece.
And then with imprints of the mother (
Gorny)
cast fakes were created.
To change (tool) details on a coin is imho muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch easier and so much likelier than in a mould.
On coins you can only remove with tooling material, on an imprint (castin mould) you can of course add material and so you can make much huger modifications (but you need experience, skills and right
tools etc.).
I think this can not be solved without having better pictures of the
Gorny piece, to see the
patina better and if the coin was
tooled.
For some here an authentic coin with ΝΕΟΚΟΡΩΝ can not exist, for me it is possible, it can be either an authentic coin with
tooled details or possibly an authentic coin with an unexected
legend and depiction (only because something is different than usual or expected needn´t mean it must be fake).
One
good argument is, that if something is so different and unusual it even speaks for authentcity because forgers try to get their
fakes as close to real coins as possible with so little differences as possible. Coins that are different than usual will be checked more often and more carefully. IF you make such a
legend you must expect that this coin could rather rise some suspicions and will be checked more carefully that a coin with a usual
legend.
For me a fake coin with the
Gorny patina can not exist because
patina looks authentic and only authentic coins can have authentic
patina so it must be authentic.
If it
comes to bronze coins I only go for
patina and this as far as I know the only reliable way to athenticate them.