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Agathocles, Syracuse, AV 40 litrae (or gold dekadrachm), ca. 295 BC244 viewsObv:- Head of Apollo left
Rev:- Biga galloping right, below the horses, triskelis
Fig 6a is the false coin - 2.90g
Fig 6b is genuine - 2.85g. Gulbenkian 337
A recent and very dangerous product struck in reddish gold.
Published in the IAPN BOC Vol 21, No. 2 in 1996 - example 6a
Image used with permission of IAPNmaridvnvm
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Agathocles, Syracuse, AV Decadrachm, ca. 317-289 BC258 viewsObv:- Head of Athena right
Rev:- AGAQOKLEOS / BASILEOS; Thunderbolt
Fig 12a is the false coin - 5.74g
Fig 12b is genuine - Leu 52, 1991, Lot 28
Irregular flans never occur on Agathocles' gold coinage.
Published in the IAPN BOC Vol 22, No. 1 in 1997 - example 12a
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Agathocles, Syracuse, AV Decadrachm, ca. 317-289 BC240 viewsObv:- Head of Athena right
Rev:- AGAQOKLEOS / BASILEOS; Thunderbolt
Fig 13 is the false coin - 5.44g
Wavy reverse field.
Published in the IAPN BOC Vol 22, No. 1 in 1997 - example 13
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Agathocles, Syracuse, EL (?) Pentadrachm, ca. 295 BC177 viewsObv:- Head of Persephone left
Rev:- Bull butting l., ΣYPAKOΣIΩN around.
Fig 7a is the false coin - 1.23g.
Fig 7b is genuine - 1.42g. Ars Classica 17, 1934, lot 271
This curious counterfeit can be traced back to an auction in the early 1960s. Genuine coins of this issue are struck in gold not electrum.
Published in the IAPN BOC Vol 21, No. 2 in 1996 - example 7a
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Agathocles, Syracuse, EL 25 litrae, ca. 310 BC185 viewsObv:- Laureate head of Apollo left
Rev:- Kithara (Lyre), ΣYPAKOΣIΩN around.
Fig 5a is the false coin - 1.85g.
Fig 5b is genuine - 1.84g. Dies of Jenkins a/a
Published in the IAPN BOC Vol 21, No. 2 in 1996 - example 5a
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Agathocles, Syracuse, EL 25 litrae, ca. 310 BC188 viewsObv:- Laureate head of Apollo left
Rev:- Kithara (Lyre), ΣYPAKOΣIΩN around.
Fig 10 is the false coin - 1.13g
See BoC 21/2, 1996/1997.
Published in the IAPN BOC Vol 22, No. 1 in 1997 - example 10
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Agathocles, Syracuse, EL 5 litrae, ca. 310 BC178 viewsObv:- Head right
Rev:- Octopus
Fig 11 is the false coin - 0.77g
Apparently a higher gold content than the seven specimens recorded by Jenkins, p. 155, which weight between 0.70g and 0.73g.
Published in the IAPN BOC Vol 22, No. 1 in 1997 - example 11
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Agathokles66 viewsSicily, Syracuse. Agathokles, 317-289 BC. Electrum 50 or 25 Litrai. 3,61 g, 14 mm.
Obv : Head of Apollo left, wearing laurel wreath; behind neck, amphora.
Rev : ΣYPAKOΣION,Tripod. SNG ANS 621; SNG Cop. 703. Jenkins group B (O4/R2).
Martin Griffiths :
"The symbol on the counterfeit is neither an amphora nor cantharus
but a combination of the two"Martin B4
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Agathokles, Syracuse65 views Sicily, Syracuse. Agathokles, 317-289 BC. Electrum 50 or 25 Litrai (3.59 g). Struck 310-300 BC. Head of Apollo left, wearing laurel wreath; behind neck, amphora. Reverse: SYPAKOSION,Tripod. SNG ANS 621; SNG Cop. 703Din X
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Agathokles, Syracuse, Syrakus49 viewsSlavey fake before cleaning
Sicily, Syracuse AR Stater. Time of Agathokles, circa 317-306/5 BC. Head of Athena to right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet decorated with griffin on the bowl; [trophy] to left / ΣYPA[KOΣIΩ]N, Pegasos flying to left; triskeles above. Pegasi 16; BAR Issue 3; HGC 2, 1402. 7.12g, 24mm, 12h.
Here another one good picture
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/displayimage.php?pid=1712Din X
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Agathokles, Syracuse, Syrakus, Slavey38 viewsSlavey fake after cleaning currently for sale by British auction house
Sicily, Syracuse AR Stater. Time of Agathokles, circa 317-306/5 BC. Head of Athena to right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet decorated with griffin on the bowl; [trophy] to left / ΣYPA[KOΣIΩ]N, Pegasos flying to left; triskeles above. Pegasi 16; BAR Issue 3; HGC 2, 1402. 7.12g, 24mm, 12h.
Here another one good picture
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/displayimage.php?pid=1712Din X
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Agathokles, Syracuse, Syrakus, Slavey35 viewsSlavey fake, for sale currently buy Slavey himslef in his store
Sicily, Syracuse AR Stater. Time of Agathokles, circa 317-306/5 BC. Head of Athena to right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet decorated with griffin on the bowl; [trophy] to left / ΣYPA[KOΣIΩ]N, Pegasos flying to left; triskeles above. Pegasi 16; BAR Issue 3; HGC 2, 1402. 7.12g, 24mm, 12h.
Here another one good picture
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/displayimage.php?pid=1712
Din X
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Artificial Patina - Fake Black Patina Common on Sicilian Fakes131 viewsBronze dilitron, Calciati II p. 185, 80; SNG ANS 533 ff.; SNG Morcom 717; SNG Munchen 1159; SNG Lloyd 1456; BMC Sicily p. 189, 311; HGC 2 1439 (S), F, well centered, green patina, edge crack, light corrosion, Syracuse mint, 344 - 336 B.C.; obverse ZEYΣ EΛEYΘEPIOΣ, laureate head of Zeus Eleutherios left; reverse ΣYPAKOΣION, free horse prancing left; scarce
Reported by Din X who first suspected it due to the fake black patina. This black patina is used by forgers who make cast fakes, most often of attractive larger Sicilian bronze coins. The patina first appears to be thick, but is actually thin and worn on high points. This sometimes indicates a fake patina that should be carefully examined. This coin was confirmed fake by identical twins. Joe Sermarini
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Artificial Patina - Fake Green Patina With Worn High Points Common on Sicilian Fakes127 viewsBronze dilitron, Calciati II p. 185, 80; SNG ANS 533 ff.; SNG Morcom 717; SNG Munchen 1159; SNG Lloyd 1456; BMC Sicily p. 189, 311; HGC 2 1439 (S), F, well centered, green patina, edge crack, light corrosion, Syracuse mint, 344 - 336 B.C.; obverse ZEYΣ EΛEYΘEPIOΣ, laureate head of Zeus Eleutherios left; reverse ΣYPAKOΣION, free horse prancing left; scarce
Reported by Din X who first suspected it due to the fake patina. This fake green patina is used by forgers who make cast fakes, most often of attractive larger Sicilian bronze coins. The patina is thin and worn on high points. This sometimes indicates a fake patina that should be carefully examined. This coin was confirmed fake by identical twins. Joe Sermarini
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Becker - Selection of Fakes173 viewsA selection of 285 Becker fakes offered in iNumis Auction V (10 December 2010) lot 14
Ensemble varié de 285 faux de Becker
Étain, 0,0 mm, 0,00 g, 0 h.
Intéressant ensemble de reproductions en étain ou plomb des monnaies grecques et romaines mais aussi mérovingiennes et carolingiennes. Dans les monnaies grecques, nous pouvons citer le décadrachme d'Athènes ou bien celui de Syracuse ; la République romaine est illustrée par les faux deniers de César et Marc Antoine. Pour les monnaies de l'Empire, notons que 4 exemplaires furent dorés (Marciane, Faustine Jeune, Crispine et Pertinax) ; tous les empereurs ne sont pas représentés mais nous avons un bel ensemble pour le IIIe siècle et notamment, sur l'Empire Gaulois, avec la représentation de Postume casqué, de face ou en bustes accolés. D'un grand intérêt historique mais aussi artistique, l'œuvre de l'un des plus grands faussaires.
Starting price: 2000 €
Estimation: 2500 €
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Becker - Sicily, Syracuse308 viewsAR tetradrachm
ΣYPAKOΣIΩN (in retrograde), female head left, wearing necklace and earring; hair bound with diadem, visible only above forehead; behind IM; beneath, three dolphins: plain border / quadraiga left, driven by charioteer, extending right and holding reins in left; horses prancing; the rein of the farthest horse hanging loose; above, Nike flying right, about to crown charioteer; in exg, lion devouring bull left: border of dots.
BMC Sicily, pg 178, #214
412-345 BC. Winged victory over chariot reverse. Sold on Ebay as a Rosa copy. Rim stamped "Becker" and "BMC214"
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Becker - Sicily, Syracuse, 004298 viewsAR tetradrachm
ΣV RAQ OΣI ON, linear circle, within which female head right; hair indicated by dotted lines, and falling formally over neck; she wears diadem and necklace; around, four dolphins right / Quadriga right, driven by male charioteer, holding reins in both hands, goad in left; above, Nike right, wings spread, alighting upon the yoke, placing her left upon the forelock of the third horse; horses walking: border of dots
BMC Sicily, 4; Sear 737
c. 480BC. Sold on Ebay as Rosa Copy. Rim stamped with "Becker" and "BMC04"
Joe Sermarini: Becker made many replicas of Syracuse tets. The flans for his replicas do not have the flan casting sprues that most genuine Syracuse tets have. A casting sprue is usually seen as an indicator of a fake, but for Syracuse tets the sprue created when casting the flan is normally still evident after striking.
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Becker - Sicily, Syracuse, 140260 viewsAR tetradrachm, by Eumenos
ΣYPAKOΣION, female head left wearing earring and necklace; hair rolled; across front of head, ampyx, on which EVMHNOY; around, four dolphins / quadriga left, driven by charioteer, holding goad and reins; horses galloping in-step; above, Nike flying right, carrying an untied wreath, and about to crown the charioteer; border of dots
BMC Sicily 140; Sear 935
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Becker - Sicily, Syracuse, 152252 viewsAR tetradrachm, by Eumenos and Euth----
ΣYPAKOΣIΩN, female head left, wearing earring and necklace; hair bound with sphendone, tied above and ornamented with stars; in field below, EVMENOV; around, four dolphins / quadriga right, driven by naked wigned youth, looking upwards towards Nike, flying left, who crowns him; in exg, EYΘ, and Skylla swimming right, her right arm extended towards a fish, which swims before her, her left holding a trident over her shoulder; behind her, a dolphin right: border of dots
BMC Sicily 152
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Becker - Sicily, Syracuse, 555291 viewsAR 16 litrai
Diademed and veiled head left of Philistis, wife of Heiron II; behind, star of eight rays / BAΣIΛIΣΣAΣ ΦIΛIΣTIΔOΣ, quadriga right, driven by winged Nike, wearing long chiton, holding reins in both hands; horses walking; above, star of eight rays; in front, K: plain border
BMC Sicily, 555; Sear 988
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Becker - Sicily, Syracuse, 638191 viewsAR 24 litrai
Reign of Heironymos, 215-214 BC
Diademed head of Heironymos left / BAΣIΛEOΣ IEPΩNYMOY above and below winged thunderbolt; monogram MI
BMC Sicily, 638; Sear 993
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Becker - Sicily, Syracuse, BMC Sicily, 208358 viewsAR tetradrachm, by Kimon
Head of Arethusa, ¾ face to left, wearing earring and necklace; hair flowing in loose tresses; across her forehead, ampyx, on which KIMΩN; around, four dolphins, two on either side, swimming among the locks of the hair: border of dots, lower half of which double-struck: above, outside border, APEΘOΣA / ΣYPAK OΣIΩN, quadriga left, driven by male charioteer, holding goad in right hand, reins in both, with head turned, looking behind him; horses galloping; beneath them, a prostrate column; (meta;) above, Nike right, stepping on two nearer horses, and carrying wreath with which she is about to crown the charioteer; in exg, ear of barley left: plain border
BMC Sicily, pg 177, #208; Sear 944
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Bruttium Rhegion fake dies and match76 viewsBruttium, Rhegion. Fake dies and match
Modern dies sold on ebay by seller "soldatoconfederato" in January 2013. He states that the dies were manufactured in the 50's.
Note that the dies are worn and broken, they may have been used to forge hundreds of fake coins!
The reported coin was accepted as authentic by two reputable auction houses, on april 1984 and on may 2002. It was clearly struck with the fake dies (see dots around lion).
Restored file after hacker attack against this board.
Comments from the old deleted report:
Note: some expert users of this forum do not agree with the hypothesis of die matching, in their opinion maybe this coin was used to make this die, not the other way around. Comment by FORVM user bpmurphy: "Several problems with this die being used to strike this coins.
1 - on the coin, the border of dots behind Apollo's head are just touching the edge of the flan. On the die, these same dots are very weak or non-existent in the same location. Also to the upper right of the lion you see the border of dots dissappear on the coin and the die. In order for the die to have made this coin. the flan would have had to be centered slightly off in souch a way that the border of dots just touched the edge of the flan. Not likeley.
2 - Above Apollo's head at 11:00 there is a small notch in the flan. This marks shows up on the die too but just as a small line outside the border of dots. Not only did the border of dots have to line up as explained in point 1 above, but the notch in the flan had to line up with the small line on the die.
3 - Above Apollo's head at 1:00 there is a die break or flan flaw. This also appears on the die but is much smaller and not as deep.
4 - look at the hair of the lion, particularly the four tufts of hair on the upper right side. There is much more detail and depth then this die could have ever created.
5 - The lines around the lion's nose are deeper on the coin than on the die.
6- Apollo's neck line is much deeper than on the die.
7 - there are die polishing marks behind Apollo's head and before her head that appear on the die and not on the coin.
8 -Significantly more detail in Apollo's hair at the back of her head on the coin than on the die.
9- The knot that ties the laurel wreath is missing on the die but present on the coin"
Some other FORVM users instead are not inclined to dismiss this die-matching, looking at how these dies have been processed after use in order to enhance their presentation for sale (look also at the other dies reported, making a search in the fake reports for "soldatoconfederato"). Comment by FORVM user Lloyd T: "These dies are interesting in many ways and warrant closer examination and analysis, particularly when comparing to potentially die matched coins struck from them. They appear to be of a bronze alloy rather than steel. As a result, they are likely to wear quite rapidly unless they have been case hardened, a point impossible to tell from the images. They show genuine signs of wear such as the die break transecting the reverse die of the Syracuse, second from bottom image. Moreover, few have complete border design in evidence and all the die edges have been extensively rounded-off. It appears that without exception that all have been polished and burnished to varying degrees so as to enhance presentation for sale, possibley removing some of the border detail that would be otherwise be present on the original working form of the die, while potentially adding scour and polishing marks to the die.
On some of the dies it appears that a considerable amount of metal has been removed in an attempt to enhance their appearance for sale, to the extent that some of the the more lightly engraved elements of design have been reduced or removed.
The evidence of die wear and post-use burnishing and polishing makes conclusions drawn from the form and detail of the beaded border/circumference of die matched coins equivocal at best. Perimeter design elements may have been lost or reduced during wear of the die either while in use and/or due to the evident burnishing and polishing of the used dies preparatory to their sale.
Given that these dies are said to have been made in the fifties, it is clear that the bright shiney bronze of the fields, in contrast to dull and in some areas verdigris covered engraved design, indicates that the burnishing and polishing of the dies is recent (i.e. yesterday).
My conclusion is that what you see by way of design elements close to the circumference/edge of the dies may not be representative of what was there when the die was originally put into use. Similarly burnishing and reshaping of the die edges and surface field areas may add marks or elements missing from from the fields of the coins formerly struck from the dies. The more heavily burnished examples show evidence of a significant removal of the die surface, to the extent that lightly engraved design elements are reduced or may have been removed.
This is a caution for those inclined to dismiss otherwise identical die matched coins to these dies... you need to take to account in your analysis of how these dies have been processed after use, but preparatory to sale in order to enhance their presentation for sale. "
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Carl Wilhelm Becker. 1772-1830. Imitating gold stater of Pyrrhus in Syracuse, Sicily45 viewsCarl Wilhelm Becker. 1772-1830. Imitating gold stater of Pyrrhus in Syracuse, Sicily
Head of Athena facing to r., wearing a Corinthian helmet ornamented with pegasos, a triple-pendant earring and a pearl necklace, her hair flowing down her neck, an owl behind, / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΠYPPOY, Nike alighting to left, holding a wreath in her right hand and a trophy in her left, a thunderbolt at her feet on l. field.
Hill, Becker, 56
Jean Elsen & ses Fils, Auction 96, lot 81
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