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Author Topic: Macrinus AR Denarius from "Trump***"  (Read 1041 times)

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Offline Mark Z

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Macrinus AR Denarius from "Trump***"
« on: March 21, 2009, 12:26:08 pm »
Morning All!

Wow, here's a really awful-looking coin from "Trump***." In fact, he has several really awful-looking coins for sale this week.

Also included in his description is this:

"If, during or after the bidding process you are contacted by anyone who discusses the authenticity of a coin or our credentials, please email us at thetwotears@yahoo.com so we can investigate."

Interesting statement to make since this auction is PRIVATE!

Mark Z.
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Re: Macrinus AR Denarius from "Trump***"
« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2009, 12:58:40 pm »
Mark, I hate to say it but if you question this wonderful coin
it means you have a lot to learn still.  :P

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Re: Macrinus AR Denarius from "Trump***"
« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2009, 06:56:40 pm »
I feel that areich may have been speechless. This is brutal....
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Re: Macrinus AR Denarius from "Trump***"
« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2009, 03:31:36 pm »
Pretty bad, right? Wait, there are more.

Feast your eyes on this one!

mz

p.s. To save you time, here's a link to the rest:

http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/trump***

These will brighten you day  ;D
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Re: Macrinus AR Denarius from "Trump***"
« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2009, 03:35:34 pm »
It looks like it came from the 'My first forgery' playset.
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Re: Macrinus AR Denarius from "Trump***"
« Reply #5 on: March 22, 2009, 04:27:50 pm »
Quote from: areich on March 22, 2009, 03:35:34 pm
It looks like it came from the 'My first forgery' playset.

Too funny :D

Even more amazing is the fact that there are bids on some of these clunkers.

Would it be fair to assume that his artifacts are also suspect?

mz

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Re: Macrinus AR Denarius from "Trump***"
« Reply #6 on: April 02, 2009, 07:15:40 pm »
Hi
Very similar Fakes sold in March / 2009 in Ebay for Romanprosecutor.  :-\
Mario
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Re: Macrinus AR Denarius from "Trump***"
« Reply #7 on: April 02, 2009, 07:36:21 pm »
Yes, they must be getting them from the same source.

Ugly...

mz
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Re: Macrinus AR Denarius from "Trump***"
« Reply #8 on: April 02, 2009, 09:12:44 pm »
The truly scary part is that there are apparently buyers for this crap!  The percentage of brain dead in the collector community must be larger than I thought.
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Re: Macrinus AR Denarius from "Trump***"
« Reply #9 on: April 02, 2009, 10:36:15 pm »
So basically they took some Lipanoff fakes and made cast copies of them. But they must not have turned out too good. So being a resourceful forger they scampered over to their bench grinder and gave each side a good hit of first the wire brush wheel and then, to make 'em shine like new, the scotchbrite wheel. Hey great, they're thinking, I got rid of most of those pesky casting bubble, and even added a little mint luster! If only all fakes were this bad.
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