I received a large lot of
Roman follii and Antoninianii for a
consignment, all coins looked like being in
mint state according to the owner… and even better they
had all been struck with the same dies…
The coins I received contained a
hoard of nice late folli/AE-3, But at the first looks in my hand I did not like them at all, and comparing them all together… yes.. all
type are struck… with the same dies… only not so long ago for sure. All coins have a nice artificial
patina with some bright new copper showing through at some of the higher points. I
had seen already some new
fake antoninianus of
Carus and
Probus which I think were listed already in this
forum before. The second “
hoard“ in this lot contained those already famous
types of
Probus and
Carus and some new
types I did not see before. They came as a
consignment and they will be returned to the owner again. He says that he got them straight out of
Serbia. So the coins will be returned and not a big loss… Then I started looking through some other lots with coins, in one lot containing 2000 cleaned
Romans these were also mixed through, maybe 10% or more were these new
type of
fakes… For someone not very familiar with
ancient coins they can look very convincing. I took out the
fakes for returning, and luckily the other 90% is
still genuine… but where does this stop?
I will list photo’s of the
types I found in this post. Anybody has an idea who and where they are made? Someone told me
Bulgaria, but all coins came from
Serbia. Funny that other lots with Silver
Denarii and Antoninianii are all genuine again… A new disease spreading faster than the Mexican flue…?
Marcel