He currently seems to sell his "black cabinet" and gets good prices as the coins are sold with real old tickets
https://www.ebay.de/itm/LANZ-SICILY-NAXOS-DIONYSOS-TETRADRACHM-MODERN-FORGERY-SILVER-HL634-/304108759847
This seems to be a
cast fake or very bad
electrotype of the authentic coin in Münzkabinett München
https://virtuellerkatalog.staatliche-muenzsammlung.de/virtuelles-kabinett/suche?no_cache=1&tx_jomuseo_pi1009%5Baction%5D=detailobject&tx_jomuseo_pi1009%5Bcontroller%5D=Museo&tx_jomuseo_pi1009%5Bh%5D=1&tx_jomuseo_pi1009%5BjoDetailView%5D=record_DE-MUS-099114_kenom_186535&tx_jomuseo_pi1009%5Bjopaginatepage%5D=1&cHash=ad13be5d3a9cf1226ea35e5702de3e22Ich have one too but mine is higher
quality and an
electrotypeThe majority of the
fakes with tickets that he sold seem to be
cast or very bad electrotpy of museum pieces I have some of these myself but as electrotypes in higher
quality and I do not remember tha I have seen any of this
fakes in
his black cabinet when I was there, he
had only some bad
fakes most likely from whole
collections he has bought in the past, so he was most likely able to get the
money back from consignors when he accidentially sold
fakes.
Some of
his fakes were really old,
good and valuable
fakes and some were and are just trash.
I own a Samos
drachm too which was condemned by Julius Friedlaender in
his book "Ein verzeichniss von griechischen falschen münzen welche aus modernen stempelin geprägt sind: Zur warnung zusammengestellt" published 1883.
I do not know why the coin was condemned as
fake from modern hand cut dies but in hand it looks 100% authentic and it has an really old
pedigree and I have seen die matches with old pedigrees although I have to admit that I have seen many
fakes Caprara,
Becker, Christoulos etc in old
auction catalogues too, so old pedigrees does not mean a coin is authentic but it means at least no modern
fake.
And I have some coins in my own colleciton of which I do not know for sure if they ar real or not and I have seen
fakes in black cabinets in museums (you can seen them with appointment) of which I did not know why they are
fakes and the Expert there sometimes did not know too. It is not so easy to tell always if a coin is
fake or not.
Even if the
Legionary was condemned it was possibly because of the pearl which would mean
cast.
I did some research for some
Alexander drachms and found that an US
auction house has listed in
his auctions several of this
fakes in their
auctions,
Auction 207, 8
Alexander fakes,
auction 208, 4
Alexander fakes,
auction 209 2
Alexander fakes,
auction 210, 1
Alexander fake,
auction 2011, 1
Alexander fake,
auction 214, 1
Alexander fakes in other
auctions are very obvious
fakes too linke in
auction 206 a Callatis
drachm(modern dies
Bulgarian workshop).
The problem of this
Alexander drachms is that they share all same
style and
fabric (very round and soft planchets and
soapy details) and which would mean same artis and workshop but they are supposed to be from different emperors, times and mints and of course they combined all dies like crazy although most die combinations can not be possible and then they even combined them with already published
fakes from modern dies. The only confusing thing almost all are completely modern hand cut dies but some are real hardcore recut transfer dies and they used and recut then either imprints taken from authentic coins or modern replicas. Of course I was not able to find any real coin from this dies but sometimes similar ones
obverse dies but there were
still well visible differences showing that they are from different dies. And of course
Lanz sold some but not so many of these too on
ebay.