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195 viewsSestertius for sale on ebay 7500 £, from a seller in the notourious fake sellerl list.
Coins obtained very probably from a sestertius of Otacilia and tooled (look at the nose).
perporius
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Seleukos I Nikator Tetradrachm6 views Seleukos I Nikator (312-281 BC). Tetradrachm.
Ekbatana. Obv: Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin. Rev: ΣΕΛΕΥΚΟΥ / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ. Zeus seated left on throne, holding eagle and sceptre. Controls: In left field, BA above sideways anchor; monogram below throne.

Sold and declared as counterfeit by the seller
Wrong mold
Zheng J
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Abdera, silver tetradrachm1105 viewsObv: ABΔH
Griffin to the left seated before him a bee
Rev: EΠIΦΙΛAΔOΣ
Herakles seated on rock left, holding club and lion-skin. Whole in incuse square
Ref: AMNG II, 1, p. 73, no. 106, May 396 A277/P322


Dangerous struck fake sold as genuine.

THE TOP THREE COINS ARE FAKE. THE BOTTOM COIN IS GENUINE.
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Abdera, silver tetrobol69 views2,67g

May Group CXXXI, 536.

Offered on October 2014; withdrawn.
Manuel
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AE Triens. Anonymous. Semilibral issue. Roman Republic. 62 viewsRoman Republic. Anonymous. Semilibral issue
AE Triens; 42,17g
Female head right, four pellets behind / Hercules fighting centaur, four pellets before, ROMA in exergue.
Crawford 39/1

Sold as modern replica. InAsta 40 lot 5738
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Aelia Eudocia98 viewsAelia Eudocia, wife of Theodosius II, AD 402-450. Gold Tremissis (1.20 g) minted at Constantinople, c. AD 425-429.
Obv : Diademed and draped bust right of Aelia Eudocia.
Rev : Cross within wreath. RIC Vol. X, 253; MIB 50.

Fake struck with modern dies
Martin B4
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Aelia Eudocia81 viewsAelia Eudocia, wife of Theodosius II, AD 402-450. Gold Tremissis (1.20 g) minted at Constantinople, c. AD 425-429.
Obv : Diademed and draped bust right of Aelia Eudocia.
Rev : Cross within wreath. RIC Vol. X, 253; MIB 50.

Fake struck with modern dies
Martin B4
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Aelia Eudocia (423-460) - WIFE OF THEODOSIUS II 402-45013 views"Dimitrovgrad studio"
AV Gold Tremissis
Constantinopel
Positive image of steel dies
Obv.: AEL EVDO CIA AVG; Pearl-diademed and draped bust right
Rev.: CONOB; Cross within wreath
Weight: 1.38g; Diameter: 16mm
Fake of RIC X Theodosius II (East) 253
1 commentsPrieure de Sion
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Aelia Eudocia tremissis RIC 10 281368 viewsObv: AEL EVDO - CIA AVG
Bust: Pearl-diademed, draped, wearing necklace and ear-rings, right
Rev: No legend
Cross within wreath (ties 9)
Exe: CONOB*
Mint: Constantinople
Date: 430-440
Ref: RIC 10 281

Free-hand copy offered on eBay November 2007 along with two others (Theodosius and Pulcheria) by the same engraver.

Submitted by Hydatius
Hydatius
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Aelia Evdocia33 viewsAelia Evdocia forgery striked with modern dies. for sale on Ebay 2021 April.

Aelia Eudocia (wife of Theodosius II) AV Tremissis. (15mm. 1,48g.)Constantinople, circa AD 430-440. AEL EVDOCIA AVG, pearl-diademed and draped bust to right / Cross within wreath with jewel at apex; CONOB* in exergue.
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Aelius124 viewsAelius. AD 136-138
AR Denarius, 2,81g
L AELIVS CAESAR. Bare head right / TR POT C OS II Pietas standing left sacrificing from patera over altar and holding sceptre.
RIC II 433 (Hadrian); RSC 53b

Sold as replica InAsta 48 lot 7267
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Aelius Alexandria Tetradrachm936 viewsCast counterfeits received by FORVM mixed in genuine coin groups, a few years apart. We suspect the metal is reused from contemporary billon tetradrachms. The surfaces have been convincingly aged. FORVM AUCTIONS
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Aelius, Sestertius, RIC 1063786 viewsObv: LAELIVS CAESAR
Bust: Bare head right.
Rev: TR POT COS II
Salus seated left, holding patera to feed snake arising from altar
Exe: SALVS
Date: 136-138 AD.
Ref: RIC 1063 (Hadrian), Cohen 44

Sold on Ebay as Rosa Copy.
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Aeolis, Kyme69 viewsPublished fake from IBSCC Bulletin on Counterfeits Volume 5 No 12 1980 page 8, figure 1.

No explanation is provided but appears to be a transfer die fake as both dies matches the (authentic) dies of Oakley 58.

Aeolis, Kyme; AR Tetradrachm; Silver; circa 165-140 BC; Obverse: Head of the Amazon Kyme right, wearing taenia; Reverse: Horse walking right, skyphos (one-handled cup) below, KYMAIΩN left, ΣEYΘHΣ (magistrate) in exergue, all within laurel-wreath.

From BOC report: Copies from the Cilicia hoard (1975-76), from Beirut. Struck
peterpil19
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Aeolis, Kyme186 viewsIdentified by Din X as a modern forgery, struck likely from transfer dies. The dies match Oakley 58.

Signs which condemn it include artificial toning and coin is too flat.

Aeolis, Kyme; AR Tetradrachm; Silver; circa 165-140 BC; Obverse: Head of the Amazon Kyme right, wearing taenia; Reverse: Horse walking right, skyphos (one-handled cup) below, KYMAIΩN left, ΣEYΘHΣ (magistrate) in exergue, all within laurel-wreath.

J Sermarini: The style seems off. Oakley 58 is probably not ancient and the dies are modern rather than transfer dies.
peterpil19
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AES GRAVE, Rome, Republic64 viewsRome, Republic. 280-245 b.C.
Aes Grave Triens 115,53g
Horsehead r., four pellets / Horsehead l., four pellets
Thurlow-Vecchi 10

Sold as replica InAsta auction 48 06/03/2013 lot 7218
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Aesillas, Thessalonika, 90-75 BC, Macedonia under Roman rule. 543 viewsAR tetradrachm
Obv: Diademed head of Alexander right; Q behind
MAKEΔONΩN below bust
Rev: Money chest, club & chair, all in wreath, AESILLAS above
Date: 70 BC
Ref: SNGAsh_3306; Dimitrov, Modern Forgeries..., 1997, #63

Macedonia under Roman rule, Aesillas the Questor
Toronto Group forgery
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Aesillas, Thessalonika, 90-75 BC, Macedonia under Roman rule.438 viewsAR tetradrachm
Obv: Diademed head of Alexander right; Q behind
MAKEΔONΩN below bust
Rev: Money chest, club & chair, all in wreath, AESILLAS above
Date: 70 BC
Ref: SNGAsh_3306; Dimitrov, Modern Forgeries..., 1997, #63

Sold on Ebay as genuine by "kdl_coins". Toronto group forgery.

Submitted by Bluefish
Bluefish
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Agathokles106 viewsDangerous forgeries from the end of the 19th century made from newly cut dies.
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Agathokles98 viewsDangerous forgeries from the end of the 19th century made from newly cut dies.
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Agathokles140 viewsForgeries from the end of the 19th century from newly cut dies.
Die links.
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Agrippa As (struck under Caligula) 223 viewsÆ (copper) as.
Obv. M. AGRIPPA L. F. COS. III. Laureate [sic] head l.
Rev. No legend. Neptune standing facing, head left; dolphin on right hand; left hand upraised and holding trident; in field, S C.
RIC Caligula 58, Cohen 3.

Diameter 29mm, weight c. 7.5gm.

Apparently from the same dies as items 7/1284 and 9/1284, carefully aged and distressed. Brownish-black patina. Note substitution of wreath for usual rostral crown.
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Agyrion26 viewsSICILY, Agyrion, 343-317 B.C. AE Hemilitra

(Obv : Youthful head of river god right)
Rev : Horse standing r., left foreleg raised, AΓΥΡINAI in ex.

Campana 13; Calciati III.130-131; HGC 53;

Modern reverse die
Martin B4
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Ainos Tetradrachm, Dewing 127344 viewsObverse: Head of Hermes facing slightly left, in petasos.
Reverse: Goat standing right; wreath to right; all within incuse square.

16,8 g.

Cast fargery.
Manuel
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