With impossible die links I meant that these coins are die linked to each other and there are so many many die links between them but I did not find die links or die matches to proven authentic coins. There seem to be 9
obverse dies and 13
reverse dies
Leg II,
Leg III,
Leg V,
Leg VI,
Leg VII,
Leg IX,
Leg XI,
Leg XII,
Leg XIV,
Leg XV,
Leg XVII,
Leg XIX.
Leg XX. I would have expected different
reverse dies from the same legions, too.
Die links mean that this dies existed and were used at the same time at the same
mint.
The planchets are strangely round and the edge cracks look strange, too.
The details are very soft and
soapy and there seem to be repeated idnetical individual characteristics from striking like bad or flat struck areas on coins from the same dies, which is very suspicious.
And that these were sold by
Bulgarian and other
fake sellers in the past is not a
good sign ofr authetnticity.
I have not seen any of these in real
mint state meaning with metal flow and
mint luster.
Does anyone know if these are actually
fakes from modern hand cut dies and so is it only a coincident that I could not find die matches or links on
acsearch or
museum collections (I looked fast and could have missed some)?
Where authentic
legionary denari for all legions minted at the same
mint (travel
mint?) at the same time?
I have one of these
fakes and an authentic one and the the
fake looks very different and worng in hand and of course on pictures, too.
Picture 1, same die but identical characteristics from striking bad sruck G of
AVG and rows etc. and non of these shows the dots of which the mast coinsits of anymore
Picture 2 one of these
fakes showing slippage, just to show that these are possibly struck and that they can have new individual characteristics from striking
Picture 3 my
fakePicture 4 edge of my
fake Picture 5 edge of my
fake