Real & Fake 1934-35 Florin Guessing Game

The diameter itself won't help determine authenticity. I just measured all my real & copy coins with vernier calipers & they were all 28.5mm. You'll have to rely on the other physical characteristics discussed in this thread.

Hi wwww ,i smell a rat , the reverse is lacking a lot of detail horse tail, mane ect, it looks like it's missing some flames behind the head of the rider, the wear on the reverse is on some strange places ,not in the correct high spots.
The toning looks like they it covered in Vegemite or something and over fried it, and they forgot to turn it over to the obverse.lol

The obverse lacks details too, so much less wear than the reverse makes it look like they mixed up the photos from another coin.
ok going by those pics a sneaky fake for me , would like to see in hand tho

My fake detecting critical factor is, if the back of the king's robe doesn't reach the rim, it's definitely a fake. That's not to say that one day they won't fix their die so there are other points that need to be taken into account if the coin passes that test. Next I start checking the serifs & the state of the rider's hand resting on the horse.

On wwww's coin the robe area has been (deliberately?) obscured by stains but in this photo, it doesn't seem to reach the rim. The lettering & associated serifs seem a bit blobby to me & aren't as graceful (thin) as I'd like. The rider's resting hand is indistinct either through weak minting (which wouldn't be usual for this coin) or wear (again, these coins weren't essentially circulated -- any that did start circulating were quickly removed from circulation).

So these points tend to indicate that this isn't authentic & the horrible stain & greater wear on the reverse than on the obverse only add to that. Even if it were real, it's still horrible.

And you'd all be correct, it's a modern fake that has been artificially toned. It's on ebay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Florin-Aust...em2a1d08442d

I've already reported it, I hope others do too.

to be fair wwwww, at least the last one says copy-

Is there anyway to tell if the different ID's belong to the same seller on Australian ebay?,i gave a seller a negative FB for a shonky coin and shortly after a buyer gave me negative FB for a $2 coin(that was worth $10)along with a cryptic message which seemed to indicate some sort of payback.

Another fake(i think),http://www.ebay.com/itm/1934-5-Melb...em3a79b4d6bf

real: 1,3,5
fake: 2,4,6
i remember reading an article about fake centenary florins and showed you how to tell them apart they were the lettering were aligned between beads, detail behind the kings head and the one I remember most being the detail on the rider's hand on the horse the fake will look like a blob while the real one will be detailed showing fingers although these indicators become harder to define as the coin becomes more worn particularly in 2 and 6 but on higher grade coins it is much easier to pick out these differences