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180 viewsFAKE GOLDED LEAD SOLIDUS OF CONSTANS BY SELLER BREGGMANN OF EBAY
BEWARE HIS SELLER IS FRAUD
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60 asses, Anonymous83 viewsRome Republic, Anonymous
AR replica od AV 60 asses
Bearded head of Mars r., wearing crested Corinthian helmet; below, mark of value ?X / ROMA Eagle with spread wings, standing r. on thunderbolt.
Sydenham 226. Bahrfeldt 4a. Crawford 44/2.
Sold as replica InAsta 48, lot 7219
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Acarnania Gold stater191 viewsMasterpieces of Ancient Greek Coinage
AV Gold Stater of Acarnania 250 B.C.
An Exact Replica of the Original Coin
Diameter: 18 mm
Material: 24 K Gold plated fine lead free pewter
Obverse: Head of the river-god Acheloos
Reverse: Apollo, nude, seated right, holding bow
This coin is stamped on the reverse with the word copy.SRukke
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Achaemenid Kingdom; Darics of "Cyrus the Younger"446 viewsObv:- Achaemenid king, beardless, running to right, holding spear and bow
Rev:- Rectangular incuse; to right, incuse head of Pan (?)
Fig 9a is the false coin
Fig 9d is genuine - 8.20g (photo from BMC)
The weights are standard daric weight though perhaps a little high. Struck from modern dies. The gold is yellow and the general aspect is modern.
Published in the IAPN BOC Vol 19, No. 1 in 1994 - example 9a
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Achaemenid Kingdom; Darics of "Cyrus the Younger"310 viewsObv:- Achaemenid king, beardless, running to right, holding spear and bow
Rev:- Rectangular incuse; to right, incuse head of Pan (?)
Fig 9b is the false coin
Fig 9d is genuine - 8.20g (photo from BMC)
The weights are standard daric weight though perhaps a little high. Struck from modern dies. The gold is yellow and the general aspect is modern.
Published in the IAPN BOC Vol 19, No. 1 in 1994 - example 9b
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Achaemenid Kingdom; Darics of "Cyrus the Younger"314 viewsObv:- Achaemenid king, beardless, running to right, holding spear and bow
Rev:- Rectangular incuse; to right, incuse head of Pan (?)
Fig 9c is the false coin
Fig 9d is genuine - 8.20g (photo from BMC)
The weights are standard daric weight though perhaps a little high. Struck from modern dies. The gold is yellow and the general aspect is modern.
Published in the IAPN BOC Vol 19, No. 1 in 1994 - example 9c
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Aelia Eudocia98 viewsAelia Eudocia, wife of Theodosius II, AD 402-450. Gold Tremissis (1.20 g) minted at Constantinople, c. AD 425-429.
Obv : Diademed and draped bust right of Aelia Eudocia.
Rev : Cross within wreath. RIC Vol. X, 253; MIB 50.
Fake struck with modern diesMartin B4
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Aelia Eudocia81 viewsAelia Eudocia, wife of Theodosius II, AD 402-450. Gold Tremissis (1.20 g) minted at Constantinople, c. AD 425-429.
Obv : Diademed and draped bust right of Aelia Eudocia.
Rev : Cross within wreath. RIC Vol. X, 253; MIB 50.
Fake struck with modern diesMartin B4
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Aelia Eudocia (423-460) - WIFE OF THEODOSIUS II 402-45013 views"Dimitrovgrad studio"
AV Gold Tremissis
Constantinopel
Positive image of steel dies
Obv.: AEL EVDO CIA AVG; Pearl-diademed and draped bust right
Rev.: CONOB; Cross within wreath
Weight: 1.38g; Diameter: 16mm
Fake of RIC X Theodosius II (East) 253Prieure de Sion
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Aelia Eudocia Gold Tremissis76 viewsAelia Eudocia (423-460) AV Tremissis
Obv. AEL EVDOCIA AVG, Pearl-diademed and draped bust right.
Rev. Cross within wreath; CONOB, star to r.
RIC X Theodosius II 281 (R); DOCLR 461; Depeyrot p. 251, 72/2; SRCV V 21245
Pressed.Joe Sermarini
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Aelia Eudocia tremissis RIC 10 281368 viewsObv: AEL EVDO - CIA AVG
Bust: Pearl-diademed, draped, wearing necklace and ear-rings, right
Rev: No legend
Cross within wreath (ties 9)
Exe: CONOB*
Mint: Constantinople
Date: 430-440
Ref: RIC 10 281
Free-hand copy offered on eBay November 2007 along with two others (Theodosius and Pulcheria) by the same engraver.
Submitted by HydatiusHydatius
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Aelia Eudosia70 viewsAelia Eudosia (423 - 443). Constantinople mint.
Gold Tremissis; 1,38g
AEL EVDOCIA AVG. Diademed and draped bust right. /CONOB*. Cross in wreath..
RIC 335
Sold as replica InAsta 50, lot 5765
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Aelius, Aureus, RIC -968 viewsObv:- L AELIVS CAESAR, Bare head right
Rev:- TR POT COS II, Salus, standing left holding staff, feeding snake rising from altar
RIC -, mimics a denarius, RIC II 434
Betrayed by completely wrong style.
Sold on German Ebay in Dec. 2005 for 181€, guaranteed to be gold but not to be authentic.
submitted by rupertRupert
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Aemilian, Gold Aureus409 viewsAemilian, 253 AD. AV Aureus
Obv: IMP AEMILIANVS PIVS FEL AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Aemilian right
Rev: APOL CONSERVAT, Apollo standing left, holding branch and leaning elbow on lyre.
offered for sale on ebay October 2008maridvnvm
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Aemilian, gold, Slavei860 viewsAemilian, gold, Slavei, sold as a replica for 200 Euro in 2006Joe Sermarini
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Aemillianus253 viewsReproduction of a gold aureus of Aemillianus. AD 193. Becker #215. Coin is stamped 'COPY' on the rim.
Sold on eBay Dec 2006
Submitted by gmazzaGustavo Mazzarollo
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Agathocles, Syracuse, AV 40 litrae (or gold dekadrachm), ca. 295 BC244 viewsObv:- Head of Apollo left
Rev:- Biga galloping right, below the horses, triskelis
Fig 6a is the false coin - 2.90g
Fig 6b is genuine - 2.85g. Gulbenkian 337
A recent and very dangerous product struck in reddish gold.
Published in the IAPN BOC Vol 21, No. 2 in 1996 - example 6a
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Agathocles, Syracuse, AV Decadrachm, ca. 317-289 BC258 viewsObv:- Head of Athena right
Rev:- AGAQOKLEOS / BASILEOS; Thunderbolt
Fig 12a is the false coin - 5.74g
Fig 12b is genuine - Leu 52, 1991, Lot 28
Irregular flans never occur on Agathocles' gold coinage.
Published in the IAPN BOC Vol 22, No. 1 in 1997 - example 12a
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Agathocles, Syracuse, EL (?) Pentadrachm, ca. 295 BC177 viewsObv:- Head of Persephone left
Rev:- Bull butting l., ΣYPAKOΣIΩN around.
Fig 7a is the false coin - 1.23g.
Fig 7b is genuine - 1.42g. Ars Classica 17, 1934, lot 271
This curious counterfeit can be traced back to an auction in the early 1960s. Genuine coins of this issue are struck in gold not electrum.
Published in the IAPN BOC Vol 21, No. 2 in 1996 - example 7a
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Agathocles, Syracuse, EL 5 litrae, ca. 310 BC178 viewsObv:- Head right
Rev:- Octopus
Fig 11 is the false coin - 0.77g
Apparently a higher gold content than the seven specimens recorded by Jenkins, p. 155, which weight between 0.70g and 0.73g.
Published in the IAPN BOC Vol 22, No. 1 in 1997 - example 11
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Ainos, Ar Tetradrachm, about 370 BC.267 viewsObv:- Facing head of Hermes, slightly turned l., wearing petasos.
Rev:- ΑΙΝΙΟΝ Goat standing right, in low field right, star, all in incuse square.
Fig 3a is the false coin - 15.28g
Fig 3b is genuine from Hunt III - 15.90g
This coin is part of what IAPN/BOC coined as the British Museum Forgers (BMF) production. These are coins based on electrotypes of coins from the British Museum (BM) that have been used to create new dies that have been enhanced in various ways. These coins are considered dangerous counterfeits and caused a lot of embarrassment amongst dealers in the mid-late 1980s when they made it through onto the market.
Whilst being dangerous they all share certain characteristics:-
a) the relief on the coin type is much more rounded and fuller than on the original coin and is often higher
b) many of the coins show no sign of any real wear but lack sharpness giving the impression of being weakly struck
c) the coin is known in an example from the same dies in the BM collection
d) the coin differs in very small ways and these changes are areas of either wear or damage on the BM coin
e) the area of join between the coin type and the flan is never really sharp
f) on gold coins the fields tend to be perfectly flat with some wavyness or convexity on the reverse. The surfaces are so perfect they look like melted chocolate
g) the pattern of wear makes no sense with very clear details on areas which are higher in relief than more flat or worn ones
Dies for the forgery were created from a somewhat corroded and worn real coin from a northern Greece hoard. Missing details have been reengraved; there is a lack of overall sharpness and a curious softness when compared to the Hunt coin; note the hair of Hermes and the goat's head, horns and legs.
Published in the IAPN BOC Vol 17, No. 1 in 1992 - Example 3
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Akragas, gold diobol, #A580 viewsAV diobol, 413-406 BC
OBV: Eagle w. closed wings, standing on rock with two pellets attacking serpent. AKPA above.
Rev: Crab. In exe: ΣILA NIΩΣ.
Sear 748
Gold .986 Sold as reproduction. Picture courtesy of Pavel at Aquanova
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Akragas, gold diobol, #A320 viewsAV diobol, 413-406 BC
OBV: Eagle w. closed wings, standing on rock with two pellets attacking serpent. AKPA above.
Rev: Crab. In exe: ΣILA NIΩΣ.
Sear 748
This coin is sold on Ebay by "primagerma" (France) today, September 03. The die is the same as another gold diobole depicted on this site as reproduction (see the picture of Pavel at Aquanova).
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Akragas, Sicily, Silver Dekadrachm250 viewsObv:- Helios driving galloping quadriga left; above eagle flying left; below crab downwards
Rev:- AKPAΓAΣ, Two eagles left, perching on dead hare lying on rocks
Fig 2a is the false coin - 43.59g
Fig 2b is genuine from Munich 43.22g
This coin is part of what IAPN/BOC coined as the British Museum Forgers (BMF) production. These are coins based on electrotypes of coins from the British Museum (BM) that have been used to create new dies that have been enhanced in various ways. These coins are considered dangerous counterfeits and caused a lot of embarrassment amongst dealers in the mid-late 1980s when they made it through onto the market.
Whilst being dangerous they all share certain characteristics:-
a) the relief on the coin type is much more rounded and fuller than on the original coin and is often higher
b) many of the coins show no sign of any real wear but lack sharpness giving the impression of being weakly struck
c) the coin is known in an example from the same dies in the BM collection
d) the coin differs in very small ways and these changes are areas of either wear or damage on the BM coin
e) the area of join between the coin type and the flan is never really sharp
f) on gold coins the fields tend to be perfectly flat with some wavyness or convexity on the reverse. The surfaces are so perfect they look like melted chocolate
g) the pattern of wear makes no sense with very clear details on areas which are higher in relief than more flat or worn ones
This coin certainly seems to have been made using an electrotype or a cast of the Munich example but is riddled with minor errors (eagles's feet, hare's legs, cicada's antennae etc.). The whole coin is rounded and soft in detail as if very lightly struck; and the wear on the first eagle's shoulder exactly parallels that on the Munich piece.
Published in the IAPN BOC Vol 17, No. 1 in 1992 - Example 2
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