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Pitting, filled cracks, field dips, edge seams, filing, soft features, lack of detail, casting sprues, ghost images...
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Trajan Decius antoninianus6 viewsmodern pressed fakeTibsiJan 01, 2022
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APOLLONIA PONTICA, THRACE8 viewsAR Drachm
Obv: Gorgoneion facing
Rev: Anchor, A, Crayfish
Identified as fakes by auction house.Tyler L2Dec 30, 2021
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Diocletian Carthage RIC 31 a4 viewsObverse die also paired with a number of improbable reverses including a VICTORIA ROMANRVM (Jovian - see https://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/displayimage.php?pid=20231 and an 'Alexandrian' eagle.
See also the following threads:
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=123332
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=127039
Withdrawn from sale on V Coins following notificationMerindaDec 25, 2021
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Roman Egypt, Antoninus Pius, Alexandria, Tetradrachm3 viewsRoman Egypt, Antoninus Pius, Alexandria, Tetradrachm
Laureate head right / Isis Pharia standing right, holding billowing sail
Athena standing facing, head left, holding shield and spear, wearing aegis on breastplateMatDec 23, 2021
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Roman Egypt, Antoninus Pius, Alexandria, Tetradrachm1 viewsRoman Egypt, Antoninus Pius, Alexandria, Tetradrachm
Laureate head right / Isis Pharia standing right, holding billowing sail
Athena standing facing, head left, holding shield and spear, wearing aegis on breastplateMatDec 23, 2021
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Trajan, denarius, mule Liberalitas (Geta or Alexander Severus)6 viewsObverse: IMP CA[ES NERVA TRAIA]N AVG GERM laureate head of Trajan right
Reverse: LIBERALITAS AVG V, Liberalitas standing left, holding abacus and cornucopiae. Similar to Geta RIC 88 or Alexander Severus 243.
Cast from two different fake coins.
Din X: Geta reverse - Beirut modern hand cut dies IBSCC Bulletin on Counterfeits BOCS Vol 22 No.2 1997 Page 20 Fig 5a. DzikiZdebDec 17, 2021
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Trajan, denarius, mule Hadrian Liberalitas36 viewsObverse: IMP CAES NERVA TRAIAN AVG GERM laureate head of Trajan right
Reverse: P M TR P COS III / LIBERAL AVG / III Hadrian seated left on platform; in front of him, Liberalitas standing front, head to left, holding counting-board in her right hand, and an officer seated to left and making distribution to citizen standing to right on steps, holding up fold of toga (RIC 132)
Cast from two different coins.DzikiZdebDec 17, 2021
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Hadrian, sestertius 23 viewssold a replica (34.5mm, 24.05g, 6h)okidokiDec 16, 2021
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