demetrius7107 has currently 3
soapy Ephesos drachms for sale, die matches of all 3 have been condemned by Barry Murphy as
"Modern dies, not transfer dies and they are struck (or pressed). Honestly the punch
side is so wrong seeing one was enough to be certain they were
fake. "
demetrius7107 has sold already many of these
fakes before. I own one of these too and in hand they are clearly
fake.
Although they have a very very soft and
soapy surface Barry Murphy thinks that they are struck or pressed.
So I am not the only one who thinks so and he seemed to have some of these in hand like me.
Joe Sermarini has correctly noticed the soapyness of details of many or even most of the
fakes I posted here not sure if you can not see the soapyness on the others due to misleading pictures or altering of surfaces (artificial wear and or artificial
toning).
So if others can possibly not see that they share the same
style, maybe they can at least see that many of them share the same soapyness of details and understand that this soapyness of details is not normal for authentic coins.
And if we then realize that they are not
cast but either struck or pressed we have to ask why do they then have such a
soapy surface.
And if even fresh
mint state fake have these soapyness, this soapyness must have been already in the dies.
Why is this soapyiness in the dies? (not sure maybe cut details in silicon and then making dies with electroplating, or casting the modern dies)
So base on this we can conclude same soapyness although struck or pressed = same or similar die production process and most likely same workshop and forger.
demetrius7107 has currently 3
soapy Ephesos drachms for sale, die matches of all 3 have been condemned by Barry Murphy
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