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Offline benito

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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
« Reply #425 on: March 03, 2013, 04:02:41 am »
Up the usual standards of our well known IAPN accredited central European dealer. He is very consistent.

Wow, that's hideous!

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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
« Reply #426 on: March 03, 2013, 10:48:39 am »
According to NumisWiki, it is the "International Association of Professional Numismatists."
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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
« Reply #427 on: April 01, 2013, 12:29:27 pm »
Here's one I found on another "coins for sale" website:

Septimius Severus Sestertius.

Apparently the seller has been notified and it has since been withdrawn from sale.

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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
« Reply #428 on: April 01, 2013, 01:39:47 pm »
It's good enough to fool a (self-proclaimed) numismatic expert, so it must be a very goodly tooled coin.  ::)
I think it's a close relative of Mr. Tooly's.
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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
« Reply #429 on: May 04, 2013, 09:48:19 am »
From the next auction catalogue of a well known german dealer.
Yet another ancient coin to burn, victim of an obtuse, anachronistic and disturbing "principle of novelty" that appears to have spread inexorably the German market of ancient coins.
The authors of this nonsense should be charged with vandalism.

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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
« Reply #430 on: May 18, 2013, 02:31:53 pm »
The below-illustrated coin, currently on fleabay, is, for me, an evident tooled fake. The obverse style is completely unrelated to either anchor series; ROMA is evidently cut freshly in small neat letters as is the anchor and the number I. Such a pretty smooth obverse profile is unknown in RR bronzes. Note the difference in the number I on obv and rev. This coin was probably recut from a worn anonymous bronze of my G3 series, as classified here:
http://andrewmccabe.ancients.info/RRC056.html

For the wider list who perhaps don't have my familiarity with RR bronzes, I wanted to draw attention to the nature of the tooling / smoothing and repatination that produces this superficially attractive green-brown surfaces, as well as the unusually small, neat lettering and the unusually small and neat symbol on the reverse. These are warning signs.

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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
« Reply #431 on: May 18, 2013, 05:56:18 pm »
Thanks Andrew, your description helps us newbies understand what's wrong. Your patience and care to insert that is appreciated.

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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
« Reply #432 on: June 13, 2013, 04:20:09 am »
Here's a fantasy Domitian's sestertius seen on trade on fleabay.

Everything is wrong here: MONETA reverse was struck only for asses, obverse legend doesn't exist, portrait is completely wrong for a supposedly 90-91 AD coin.

IF there was a real coin under the fake patina and before the massive tooling, it could have been a Pax sestertius of Vespasian or Titus, about 74 A.D..

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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
« Reply #433 on: June 13, 2013, 02:35:05 pm »
I also have one "beautiful" example of tooling...

Could those be two nearly identical cast fakes?

Yes, i was puzzled with this coin too. This part of scratch looks really strange. But a wear looks good, and exist and another examples from this obv. die at close condition, which seems undoubtly struck.
So, i think it's mostly crazy tooling, not forgery. IMHO.

That is great research, xintaris75!

I immediately thought forgery as Joe said. You convinced me otherwise for a second, with the other coin. But how did the first pair end up being so identical (minus the bizarre scratch/crack) in their placement and position on the flan, and in the flan shape? It seems like someone was making forgeries with that die (or set of dies), and once it cracked, they shopped the die to give the flan a different shape. Is that possible? I just can't shake the first pair of images. The flans appear 100% identical with identical die positioning, only differing in that crack. Couldn't the die have later been reshaped to create the flan shape on the third coin you show?

I'm just thinking "out loud," but it seems odd to me...
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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
« Reply #434 on: July 09, 2013, 02:45:58 pm »
Bruttium, Lokris
9,37g; 11,5mm

dreadful tooling

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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
« Reply #436 on: July 24, 2013, 01:55:20 pm »
That is a very sad case, indeed, if it's truly tooled, since the "improvements" would only add minimal value to a piece that is already of great value. The "tooled" eye seems to look about like it ought to, but it would have been one of the first, highest relief details to wear off, and the coin has enough general wear elsewhere that it's not believable. Quite perplexing, since I can't imagine the tooling, if it "passed" as real detail, would add more than minuscule value to a coin that would otherwise have already been worth multiple thousands of US$. (I might not have caught it on a quick glance, though). Good example.
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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
« Reply #437 on: July 24, 2013, 02:01:58 pm »
Taras, I'm not sure where the tooling is on this one. Can you point it out? It's just the kind of bronze coin I would want for my family's private, "no-sell" collection, so I'm interested to know where you see it.
Grain ear?
Bust?
Thanks!
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Weight: 3.3 g.
Diameter: 12 mm.

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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
« Reply #438 on: July 24, 2013, 02:31:03 pm »
Curtis, look at the obverse: eyes, nose, lips, chin and ear are roughly tooled, you can clearly see the traces left by chisels. Result: the style is horribly distorted, you should look at the plates of the Johnston's work on the bronze coinage of Metapontion, to make a comparison with this monstrosity. If ever I were drunk enough to buy it, this is the kind of coin I'd put in the "freak section" of my collection.

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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
« Reply #439 on: September 02, 2013, 11:54:06 am »
From the next auction catalogue of a well known german dealer.
Yet another ancient coin to burn, victim of an obtuse, anachronistic and disturbing "principle of novelty" that appears to have spread inexorably the German market of ancient coins.
The authors of this nonsense should be charged with vandalism.

The beauty re-appeared in a german auction catalogue, Oct 2013

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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
« Reply #440 on: September 02, 2013, 04:54:54 pm »
I had a look to the ebay store of the German seller.
It is no longer a numismatic shop, it's an Horror-Theatre!

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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
« Reply #441 on: September 02, 2013, 05:52:30 pm »
This is indeed horrible!!


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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
« Reply #442 on: September 02, 2013, 05:55:59 pm »


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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
« Reply #443 on: September 03, 2013, 12:36:24 am »
I had a look to the ebay store of the German seller.
It is no longer a numismatic shop, it's an Horror-Theatre!

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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
« Reply #444 on: September 03, 2013, 11:04:43 am »
From the german ebay seller
I think there is one Historia Numorum - Italy book for sale that is not tooled ;D

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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
« Reply #445 on: September 26, 2013, 02:12:12 pm »
From the new online catalogue of a German auction house.
All these are tooled, and added of fake patina... now they are genuine ancient modern fakes.


















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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
« Reply #446 on: September 26, 2013, 02:37:39 pm »
Looks like the same artist worked on this one, which when I asked them if it (the reverse inscription) was tooled, they said all ancient coins are significantly "worked on" but they didn't think it was tooled.

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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
« Reply #447 on: September 26, 2013, 02:40:57 pm »
Sure Nick, the workshop is the same.

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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
« Reply #448 on: September 26, 2013, 02:48:55 pm »
On the same catalog I have found a coin which is not tooled.
...oops it's a fake!!
Just added to the fake reports..
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/displayimage.php?pos=-15198

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Re: Badly Tooled Coins Here
« Reply #449 on: September 26, 2013, 06:09:17 pm »
Perhaps these are the unsolds from their previous auction of tooled crap a few years ago? Either they don't know or don't care, whichever it is, I no longer buy from them.
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