Hi Din X,
So I can upload the fake coin reports accurately, can you please confirm that I have understood the above, or correct me as necessary:
1. First group of photos - obverse die matches to published BOCS Vol 5 No.1/2 1980 Page 4. I cannot see the victory clearly enough in the image - is the reverse style wrong here too as per your comment about the second group of coins?
2. Second group of photos - reverse die matches to above report as well as BOCS Vol 18 No.1 1993 Page 30 Fig 8a. Reverse style wrong. Can you please elaborate? Victory should have 2 wings not one - is that the extent of the style issues, or is there more?
Thanks for your help!
Peter
To the wing, I only referred to it to proof that they are from the same dies, yes the wing does not look right and
nike too.
The
style and the oberse dies are actually in most cases much better and more deceptive than the
reverse dies.
The
fakes from my frist post are possibly not published so far, I own one of them which was in the fake
collection of the dealer.
They seem to be from Beirut and the same forger as the other
fakes.
The are clearly fake and this is how the dealer detected this fake which I later bought from him as fake in the education wallet.
It is well possible that they are published too and the entry is only missing in forgernetwork and
fake reports, I have noticed that not all
fakes from
BOS are in
fake reports and on
forgerynetwork.
The
style is off, the
face,
head and hair of
Zeus does not look ancient and the anatomie on
reverse etc.
On the
obverse the hair does sometimes look odd or better is off.
The
quality how
good the forgery imitated the
style differs a little
bit on these
fakes but at least the
style of the
reverse or
obverse is wrong on all of them.
The art/works of the artists do always mirror and represent the time in which they live.
People in modern times do have a different view of the world and things as people
had in ancient times.
One example are modern
fake coins and
statues with smiling emperors or gods, or to strong mimic.
Or wrong gesture on
fake coins or
statues of emerors or gods etc.
The
toning is artificial on my 2
fakes from Beirut.
The flans do look to round and perfect and show equal thickness.
They do look flat and rather pressed than struck.
Almost all do not have edge cracks and if they have some they do look like the edge cracks from pressing (only found one with edge cracks and there are many
fakes from different issues and dies from this Beirut workshop)
Some more
fakes from same workshop and forger/artis, most are already published
Antiochos IV
http://forgerynetwork.com/asset.aspx?id=9H1YV/QwrY0=Demetrios
http://forgerynetwork.com/asset.aspx?id=rW~x~8mG8tzrY=Demetrios
http://forgerynetwork.com/asset.aspx?id=kuxHRwpBhhA=Thea
http://forgerynetwork.com/asset.aspx?id=uMYQTRe0vfw=There are more but too lazy too look and from most fake issues are several examples already in
forgerynetwork,
I posted all I found always
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