These
fakes have many many problems and it is most likely not so smart to mention all of them, because some of them can be fixed easily and so making it harder to detect such
fakes in future if fakers get to know them.
You can ask yourself for example, why many of these were offered by
Bulgarian fake seller, who
had 100%
fakes for sale?
That authentic coins are for sale by
fake sellers can be the sometimes the case (only very few do so) but then this
fakes are generally really
cheap authentic coins used to make much more expenisve coins look more convincing when offered together with authentic coins. This is not the case here, these are not very
cheap and they were often the most exensive and best
selling fakes of
fake sellers.
And the other
fakes were offered by resellers or
auction houses, who were
selling the coins for consignors, who buy many coins at origin countries
cheap for example at local markets for reaselling them with profit and there are always
fakes mixed in.
There are so many die links between them, that they all must be used at the same time at a
mint, but there seems to be no other die links to earlier or later issues.
And no die links or die matches to authentic coins.
So they produced many dies at the same time in NEO Thrakia (modern Buklgaria) and then they were minting at the same time with all this dies modern
fakes and then they stopped minting although all dies were
still intact (dies do not show die wear, die flaws, die breaks) implying that they these
fakes must have been minted from fesh dies.
There is for each legion exactly one die (
LEG II possibly 2 different dies) which is very suspicious (they wanted to conver all legions to sell as many of these as possible, you do not need 2 from same legion but many want different legions and so you can sell them
fakes form many diferrent legions) and the relation between
obverse and
reverse dies is not reasonable, too.
At real mints worked generally more than one artist who cut dies but here the
style is so similar that it was most likely one artist who cut all these
legionary dies.
This forgery are thinking how they can make if possible fast as much profit as possible and this is not how empoyees thought in ancient mints who produced authentic coins (they wanted to produce as many authentic as fast as possible that meet
quality requirements and it seems like often minting fast was more important than producing well struck coins).
I think it is easier to tell what is right with this coins, they are at least made of silver even though it is modern silver and they wrote the
legend right and the depiction, even though the depiction is bad, is
still good enough to tell what they tried to imitate and they are struck like authentic coins. And some of them have Silverchloid on them, this can be found on authentic coins, but this can be produced artificially and can be found on other
Bulgarian and Sicilian
fakes, too. Everything else is wong.