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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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Artabanos II2 viewsDrachm
Sellwood 63.6
Cast fake sold as a Vologases drachm by eBay seller haji_786 of Thailand.Robert L3Mar 24, 2023
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Menander AE modern fantasy1 viewsObv: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΟΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΜΕΝΑΝΔΡΟΥ, diademed bust right.
note: legend setup as for round flan.
Rev: look a like Kharosti legend, maybe Athena standing left.
See: https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=88114
topic: https://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=130997.msg783010#msg783010Pekka KMar 20, 2023
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Constantinus IX. Monomachos, 1042 - 1055, AR "Beischlag"1 viewsCopy of Histamenon SBCV 1831 made in silver, like https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8626732
obv: + IhS XIS REX REGNANTInm
rev: + CWnSTAnT-noS bASILEVS Rm
See topic: https://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=130998.msg783020#msg783020Pekka KMar 20, 2023
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Judaea, First Revolt , Year 1 Silver Shekel4 viewsobv: Omer cup. legend (trans.): SHEKEL OF ISRAEL. Dated above cup
rev: stem with pearled base & 3 pomegranates. legend (trans.): JERUSALEM THE HOLY
Modern dies, like: https://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/displayimage.php?pid=10581
Topic: https://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=130846.msg782262#msg782262Pekka KMar 19, 2023
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Marcus Aurelius Denarius Struck With Modern Dies4 viewsSilver denarius, Die-engraver "Slavey Studio - Haskovo I" I. Prokopov 2003, no. 135, Struck fake, weight 2.600 g, maximum diameter 19.4 mm, die axis 225o, obverse AVRELIVS CAES ANTON AVG P II F, bare head right; reverse TR POT XI COS II, goddess standing left, patera in right hand, lyre in left hand
Joe SermariniMar 13, 2023
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4 viewsIs this fake?Traci BMar 12, 2023
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3 viewsIs this fake?Traci BMar 12, 2023
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Caracalla & Geta, Geta Damnatio Memoriae, Stratoniceia, Caria AE271 viewsBronze AE 36, cf. SNG von Aulock 2686, SNG Cop -, SNGvA -, Lindgren -, bust of Geta effaced, 26.60g, 36.5mm, Stratoniceia (Eskihisar, Mugla Province, Turkey) mint, 209 - 212 A.D.; obverse AVT K M AVP ANTΩNEINOC, 2nd half of legend (referring to Geta) removed, laureate bust of Caracalla right, bust of Geta on right intentionally erased, central oval countermark of head right, QEOY in another below; reverse EΠIΠΠY IOYΛIA ∆OMNO IEPOKΛEOY CTPATONIKEΩN, Hekate standing half left, holding patera over altar in right hand, torch in left hand, tiny bird at foot right; RR stamp on edge, Robert Ready electrotypeJoe SermariniMar 11, 2023
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