The book of Larson is from 2004, I think this is the first and only edition available.
Of course it is well possible that some information in the book were already outdate when they were published.
There is another book on this topic and here is only mentioned for producing transfer dies electroplating and casting (there are only two pages in Sayles book and I uploaded the pictures of tis 2 pages in this post).
Classical Deception:
Counterfeits,
Forgeries, and Reproductions by Wayne G. Sayles
It was printed 2001 and , I think this is the first and only edition available
https://www.amazon.de/Classical-Deception-Counterfeits-Forgeries-Reproductions/dp/0873419685Joe Sermarini "Apparently, ancient counterfeiters made transfer dies by smashing a coin into heated bronze with an extremely hard blow"
This is completely new to me where is this information from?
Here Sayles mentiones that forgers have already created transfer dies by casting process in ancient times and this is perfectly true and important because most "ancient dies" on the market are ancinet transfer dies from forgers and not official dies.
This dies show ghost lines showing the
planchet end of the mother and parts of dotted
border are missing because on many emissions the dies were huger than the planchets and so on most of this coins parts of the dotted
border are missing due to "bad" centering meaning this dots were off
flan when the coin was struck. And sometimes we can find struck ancient transfer die
fakes, struck with such transfer dies in ancient times in
auctions, too.
If they could
cast transfer dies in ancient times we can guess that we do not need a