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Philip II, tetradrachm, Pella 30 viewsTerrible cast fake currently for sale by huge US auciton house.
The auction house even noted "scrapes along edge."

Round casting pearls green, there may be more have marked only the most obvious.
Round casting holes red, there may be more have marked only the most obvious.
At the eye I don't know what it is , a giant peral or casting defects (marked blue).
The details are also all soapy/washed out and details are lost.

See in fake reports the many casting twins with same flan shape, die axis, centering, wear, flan defect, scratch etc.

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/displayimage.php?pid=22391
Din XJan 29, 2022
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Philip II, tetradrachm, Pella32 viewsCast twins, the top coins is the same as bottom coin.
Same flan shape, die axis, centering, wear, flan defect, scratch etc.
And on most pearls, circular holes and casting defects and soft details are evident.
AS always one could be the authentic mother but all except one have casting problems are so cast fakes and the oterh one is either the mother or cast too but pictures are not good enough to tell.

KINGS of MACEDON. Kassander. As regent, 317-305 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23.5mm, 14.74 g, 3h). In the name and types of Philip II. Pella mint. Struck circa 317/6-315/4 BC. Laureate head of Zeus right / Youth, holding palm frond, on horseback right; serpent below, Boeotian shield below horse's raised foreleg. Le Rider 529 (D281/R433); cf. HGC 3, 988 (Amphipolis mint); SNG ANS 450 (same obv. die). Lightly toned, a little harshly cleaned, scrapes along edge. Good VF.
Din XJan 29, 2022
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Transfer and modern dies from Sicily 31 viewsTransfer and modern dies from Sicily Din XNov 26, 2021
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Cigoi, Caligula, Germanicus 22 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
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Babylon forgery, Tryphon7 viewsMYRINA AND RELATED FORGERIES by Philip Kinns
There numbrer 24a and a hybrid with same reverse die number 27
Din XNov 26, 2021
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Thebes, Stater Caprara, Kinns 21 16 viewsThebes, Stater Caprara, Kinns 21

https://ikmk.smb.museum/object?id=18284813
Din XNov 10, 2021
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Samos, Caprara, Kinns 59 18 viewsSamos, Caprara, Kinns 59

https://ikmk.smb.museum/object?lang=de&id=18284833&view=rs
Din XNov 10, 2021
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Macedon, Caprara, Kinns 10 5 viewsMacedon, Caprara, Kinns 10

https://ikmk.smb.museum/object?lang=de&id=18284803&view=rs
Din XNov 09, 2021
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Lipanoff, Titus18 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=5320
Din XOct 21, 2021
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Philip, Arabs, Heliopolis14 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

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Din XOct 21, 2021
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Philip, Arabs, Heliopolis10 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=8212
Din XOct 21, 2021
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Philip, Arabs, Heliopolis8 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=8212
Din XOct 21, 2021
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Philip, Arabs, Heliopolis11 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=8212
Din XOct 21, 2021
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Philip, Arabs, Heliopolis24 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=8212
Din XOct 21, 2021
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Titus denarius, tripod lebes8 viewsSold by different fake sellers with other Bulgarian fakes on ebay, hybrids with Vespasian obverse seem to exist

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/displayimage.php?pid=5320
Din XOct 21, 2021
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Lipanoff, Titus10 viewsCurrently for Sale US auction house
Sold by different fake sellers with other Bulgarian fakes on ebay, hybrids with Vespasian obverse seem to exist

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/displayimage.php?pid=5320
Din XOct 21, 2021
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Lipanoff, Titus6 viewsSold by different fake sellers with other Bulgarian fakes on ebay, hybrids with Vespasian obverse seem to exist

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/displayimage.php?pid=5320
Din XOct 21, 2021
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Lipanoff, Titus5 viewsSold by different fake sellers with other Bulgarian fakes on ebay, hybrids with Vespasian obverse seem to exist

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/displayimage.php?pid=5320
Din XOct 21, 2021
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Lipanoff, Titus6 viewsLipanoff, Titus
Sold by different fake sellers with other Bulgarian fakes on ebay, hybrids with Vespasian obverse seem to exist

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/displayimage.php?pid=5320
Din XOct 21, 2021
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Lipanoff, Titus5 viewsLipanoff, Titus
Sold by different fake sellers with other Bulgarian fakes on ebay, hybrids with Vespasian obverse seem to exist

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/displayimage.php?pid=5320
Din XOct 21, 2021
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Slavey, MACEDON, Amphipolis 27 viewsSlavey signature

MACEDON UNDER ROMAN PROTECTORATE. First Meris. Tetradrachm (Circa 167-148 BC). Amphipolis.

Obv: Diademed and draped bust of Artemis right, with bow and quiver over shoulder; all in centre of Macedonian shield.
Rev: MAKEΔONΩN / ΠPΩTHΣ.
Club; monogram above, two monograms below; all within oak wreath; thunderbolt to left.

AMNG 173; SNG Copenhagen 1313; HGC 3.1, 1103.
1 commentsDin XOct 17, 2021
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Slavey, MACEDON, Amphipolis 21 viewsSignature on reverse

MACEDON UNDER ROMAN PROTECTORATE. First Meris. Tetradrachm (Circa 167-148 BC). Amphipolis.

Obv: Diademed and draped bust of Artemis right, with bow and quiver over shoulder; all in centre of Macedonian shield.
Rev: MAKEΔONΩN / ΠPΩTHΣ.
Club; monogram above, two monograms below; all within oak wreath; thunderbolt to left.

AMNG 173; SNG Copenhagen 1313; HGC 3.1, 1103.
Din XOct 17, 2021
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Slavey, MACEDON, Amphipolis18 viewsSignature on reverse has been removed with artificial wear only C is still visible.

MACEDON UNDER ROMAN PROTECTORATE. First Meris. Tetradrachm (Circa 167-148 BC). Amphipolis.

Obv: Diademed and draped bust of Artemis right, with bow and quiver over shoulder; all in centre of Macedonian shield.
Rev: MAKEΔONΩN / ΠPΩTHΣ.
Club; monogram above, two monograms below; all within oak wreath; thunderbolt to left.

AMNG 173; SNG Copenhagen 1313; HGC 3.1, 1103.
Din XOct 17, 2021
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Slavey, MACEDON, Amphipolis17 viewsSignature on reverse has been removed with artificial wear only C is still visible.

MACEDON UNDER ROMAN PROTECTORATE. First Meris. Tetradrachm (Circa 167-148 BC). Amphipolis.

Obv: Diademed and draped bust of Artemis right, with bow and quiver over shoulder; all in centre of Macedonian shield.
Rev: MAKEΔONΩN / ΠPΩTHΣ.
Club; monogram above, two monograms below; all within oak wreath; thunderbolt to left.

AMNG 173; SNG Copenhagen 1313; HGC 3.1, 1103.
Din XOct 17, 2021
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