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Fake? Copy? What Is It?

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 Posted 03/29/2013  4:18 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add pdm12772 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I have had this a while and thought it was real.LMK w

Fake?-Copy?-What-Is-It?

Fake?-Copy?-What-Is-It?hat you think.
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 Posted 03/29/2013  6:11 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add rooneydog to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Not an expert but compare to this

http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotvi...cd3e7ee384c5
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 Posted 03/30/2013  9:59 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add pdm12772 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Any thoughts?
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 Posted 03/31/2013  07:35 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add rooneydog to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
It's a 1585 NB Lithuania Taler of Stephen Bathory. Whether it is real, a contemporary or modern fake I do not know. Expert opinion is required. Here is a 1586NB which sold for $27,000.

http://stacksbowers.com/Auctions/Au...LotID=363485

The one I linked to earlier was a copy I think (if google translate worked) and that realised Euro 4,833.
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 Posted 03/31/2013  08:42 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add pdm12772 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you rooneydog. It's just in such good shape I wonder. Then again I never see fakes of this. I wish it was real. Guess I will have to wait and see.
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Maybe worth the cost of sending to NGC unless we have an expert here ?

Might be worth posting again as 1585NB etc real or fake on the world forum
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 Posted 03/31/2013  09:07 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add rooneydog to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
To be honest it does not look real to me. It is more like this one

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1585-POLAND...em27d126fbcf
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I'm not an expert, but I collect that genre, and my guess is that coin is probably fake. Most I have seen that are well struck as that one is still have uneveness epecially in potrait and notable die cracks. Such a coin would Sell for 15k or more in that condition.
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There are tons of fakes of various European talers. Some really old, some new. You need to buy them from reputable (and knowledgable) dealers or in a major slab. The fakes have turned many collectors towards the fractionals and minor coinage which has been a hot area the last few years Davenport #8457.
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