If fake it would be a recut transfer die fake, but to prove this a die study would be necessary to reconstruct which details were in the ancient dies in which die state.
I do not like the coin (lifeless,
soapy surface, and some differences in details to die matches may be due to wrong recutting) but to prove it could be very difficult because I could not find enough die matches in
good quality, which would be
good enough for a representative die study.
To prove it is in such cases, especially if you know the result (fake or not) before is only for fun or self-affirmation.
In
museum collections available at
numismatics.org is not any die match, but I guess it could be possible to find more die matches in other
museum collections, literature (like
auction catalogues etc) if someone is willing to spend much time and
moneyhttp://numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-44.2If someone is really interested and willing to spend much time and
money he or she could of course prove it but, why sould anyone do this, if he/she will get in best case a thank you and the effort is in no relation to the value of the coin and the one who is doing it will get in best cases a thank you. I am sometimes doing such things, like spending much time and
money (literature, to see authentic ones in hand or
fakes or spend
money for them to be digitalized) for research.
It seems like others do not see such things or appreaciate them but this is actually not necessary because it can be really fun to get to know more about such coins and helpping to get even better, so it can pay off at the end.
To do research for own coins is another case and always more interesting.
I own a Samos
drachm, bought it very
cheap from ebay, it was sold together with many old
fakes, so most likely someone sold an old fake
collection.
So it was first in my fake
collection becasue I thought it must be fake because it was sold with
fakes.
But it looks so convincing.
So I started research.
Of my coin a plaster
cast is at Münzkabinett
Berlin indicating that it was a long time ago condemed by director of Münzkabinett Julius
Friedländer , Julius
Friedländer has described a coin of this
type in
his book as fake.
So I bought Silver Coins of Samos by
Barron, because my coin looks 100% authentic in hand and I have found die matches and die links in very old
auction catalogues.
My coin is a die match to a coin considered by
Barron as authentic and my coins is die liked to the other authentic Samos drachms of this
type!
Research costed some time and
money (book was expensive and travel to
Berlin) but I really enjoyed it especially because it is my coin and it is 100% authentic, more authentic is not possible.
If it would not be my coin I would not have invested so much
money and time for it.
And on the plaster
cast of my coin a
pedigree is written "Kiehn, Köln, 1935, 4, 59 bzw. Kiehn, Köln, 1935, (März)" but I couldn´t verify it so far.