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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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Octavian aureus/denarius 40 b.c.12 viewsCrawford 526/3
Obv:- DIVI F, Head of Octavian right, lituus to right
Rev:- Q•VOCONIVS above, S-C to sides, VITVLVS•Q / DESIG below, bull-calf advancing left
Struck from modern dies in Bulgarian workshop. Genuine coin is an aureus.Pawel KOct 24, 2021
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Lipanoff, Titus3 viewsSold by different fake sellers with other Bulgarian fakes on ebay, hybrids with Vespasian obverse seem to exist and other die links to Lipanoff forgeries
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/displayimage.php?pid=5320Din XOct 21, 2021
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Lipanoff, Titus2 viewsSold by different fake sellers with other Bulgarian fakes on ebay, hybrids with Vespasian obverse seem to exist and other die links to Lipanoff forgeries
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/displayimage.php?pid=5320Din XOct 21, 2021
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Philip, Arabs, Heliopolis4 viewsPublished fake
"NOTE: the obverse legend does NOT end with PIVS FEL AVG on image no. 10 but with OVBOVS."
"Here the legends are of Philip I while the portrait is clearly that of Caracalla"
Published in the IAPN BOC Vol 18, No. 1 in 1993 - example 10
Image used with permission of IAPN
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/displayimage.php?pid=8212Din XOct 21, 2021
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Philip, Arabs, Heliopolis3 viewsPublished fake
"NOTE: the obverse legend does NOT end with PIVS FEL AVG on image no. 10 but with OVBOVS."
"Here the legends are of Philip I while the portrait is clearly that of Caracalla"
Published in the IAPN BOC Vol 18, No. 1 in 1993 - example 10
Image used with permission of IAPN
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/displayimage.php?pid=8212Din XOct 21, 2021
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Philip, Arabs, Heliopolis2 views"NOTE: the obverse legend does NOT end with PIVS FEL AVG on image no. 10 but with OVBOVS."
"Here the legends are of Philip I while the portrait is clearly that of Caracalla"
Published in the IAPN BOC Vol 18, No. 1 in 1993 - example 10
Image used with permission of IAPN
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/displayimage.php?pid=8212Din XOct 21, 2021
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Philip, Arabs, Heliopolis2 views"NOTE: the obverse legend does NOT end with PIVS FEL AVG on image no. 10 but with OVBOVS."
"Here the legends are of Philip I while the portrait is clearly that of Caracalla"
Published in the IAPN BOC Vol 18, No. 1 in 1993 - example 10
Image used with permission of IAPN
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/displayimage.php?pid=8212Din XOct 21, 2021
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Philip, Arabs, Heliopolis11 viewsPublished fake
"NOTE: the obverse legend does NOT end with PIVS FEL AVG on image no. 10 but with OVBOVS."
"Here the legends are of Philip I while the portrait is clearly that of Caracalla"
Published in the IAPN BOC Vol 18, No. 1 in 1993 - example 10
Image used with permission of IAPN
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/displayimage.php?pid=8212Din XOct 21, 2021
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