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Evidence of Casting

Pitting, filled cracks, field dips, edge seams, filing, soft features, lack of detail, casting sprues, ghost images...

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Evidence of Pressing

Machine pressed vs. hand struck.

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Evidence of Modern Tool Use to Cut Dies

Machine made dies...

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Style Deviations

Deviations from subtle to strange, forgers rarely get style right...

8 files, last one added on Nov 17, 2011
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Epigraphy Deviations

Forgeries often have the wrong style of letters in the inscriptions.

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Fabric Deviations

Wrong metal, wrong size, no edge cracks for a type that always has them, strange shape for the type...

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Artificial Patina, Toning and "Make-up"

Not every coin with an artificial patina is a forgery, but it is an indicator. In any case an artificial patina is a fake patina.

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Work of Known Forgers

Slavey, Lipanoff, Becker, Christodoulos, the Black Sea hoard, the Toronto Group, etc. STUDY IMAGES - only list here if you explain how to use the image to learn the work of the forger. Otherwise list under the type as a regular fake coin report.

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Replica Marks

All replicas should be marked as replicas. Many are not, but some are. Here are some examples.

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Bulk Lots of Mixed Types

Groups of fakes or replicas of different types sold together may offer clues to identifying fakes from the same workshop.

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Tooling

A tooled coin is not a forgery, but it is a fake. Tooling is also used to cover up cast fakes.

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Fake Coin Edges

The edges of fakes often provide the clues to condemn them. Some of the examples here are very different from genuine coins; others are very close to the original type.

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Modern Fake Dies

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Other Indications of Forgery

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Last additions - Fake Coin Study Images - Learn to Identify Fake Coins

Close-up of false patina on fake Aelius denarius 2 viewsSo bad... Zero silver.
Just look at the fill.. ugh. I so wish this would have been real.
Whou would do such a thing? I know exactly who was complicit in selling this.

Ron C3Sep 15, 2022

Julian II Follis of Heraclea1 viewsVery badly tooled obverse*AlexAug 22, 2022

Transfer and modern dies from Sicily 24 viewsTransfer and modern dies from Sicily Din XNov 26, 2021

Cigoi, Caligula, Germanicus 12 viewsDie match number 100 in "Opus monetale Cigoi, Bologna 1966 von Lodovico Brunetti "
CNG sold die matching one but cast and brass cast as Cigoi 100

Din XNov 26, 2021

Babylon forgery, Tryphon3 viewsMYRINA AND RELATED FORGERIES by Philip Kinns
There numbrer 24a and a hybrid with same reverse die number 27Din XNov 26, 2021

Thebes, Stater Caprara, Kinns 21 10 viewsThebes, Stater Caprara, Kinns 21

https://ikmk.smb.museum/object?id=18284813Din XNov 10, 2021

Samos, Caprara, Kinns 59 9 viewsSamos, Caprara, Kinns 59

https://ikmk.smb.museum/object?lang=de&id=18284833&view=rsDin XNov 10, 2021

Macedon, Caprara, Kinns 10 4 viewsMacedon, Caprara, Kinns 10

https://ikmk.smb.museum/object?lang=de&id=18284803&view=rsDin XNov 09, 2021