Replica Roman Coins

Welcome Alex. If you are unsure of a coin, you can always post a picture and ask here.

Welcome, Alex.

If you do a forum search for "WRL", you'll see that these indeed turn up quite frequently here on the forum, most often by people who have obtained/inherited one and don't know what it means either.

WRL replicas are usually sold by the museums and tourist shops in little cardboard information folders that (a) make it clear that the coins are replicas and (b) tell the historical background of the coin of which it is a copy. It is only when the coins somehow become separated from their holders that problems arise.

Of course, we've also seen the deliberately deceptive side of things, from people taking pictures of WRL replicas that are just fuzzy enough to not be able to read "WRL" clearly, to pieces where the "WRL" has actually been scratched off or overstamped with something else.

So far I saw these two Neros from WRL:





regards

I have a small 'WRL' collection. The collection isn't valuable, but they are fun to collect nevertheless. All have come from dealers' junk boxes, for a dollar or so. They all go into my 'black' collection, despite the fact that I do not consider them to be fakes.

I would not mind having a few of those WRL coins.