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Other Unidentified Roman Coins | Assorted Fakes

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 Posted 07/18/2011  9:07 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Kareem3000 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I need information about these roman coins and I need to know if they are fake or not.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-image...ancoin1.jpg/

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I need to know the authenticity of the coins in this post

https://goccf.com/t/92463

Thanks in advance for your help

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 Posted 07/18/2011  9:38 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add pls to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Kareem3000 - you are pretty much asking the impossible here - for a declaration as to whether or not a coin is real or a fake from a photo, and a rather small photo at that. You'll probably need to visit a coin expert with the coins in hand, or at least provide much more detailed photos (plus the exact size/diameter and weight of each coin) before the coin experts here can give you even an inconclusive statement as to whether a given coin is real or fake.
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Greek coins are not really in my area of collecting, so I can't comment on them with 100% certainty. But my gut impression is that they are not real. The Roman provincial also looks like a cast copy. The only coin that appears to be real is the one of Constantius II, this is a very common coin and not often faked.
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 Posted 07/23/2011  07:07 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I'd have to agree - all of them are either very typical "target" coins for counterfeiters, or show worrying signs of being counterfeits.

#1: Athens, drachm or tetradrachm (depending on size). Very commonly faked. The helmet features on this example are very badly defined.

#2: Olympia, stater or fraction (depending on size). As the site of the ancient Olympic Games, coins from here are highly sought after - and commonly faked. FORVM Fakes example.

#3: Roman Egypt, emperor Antoninus Pius, not sure of the denomination (size would be helpful here too) but assuming a tetradrachm. The fields look porous and cast, and less "silvery" than a tetradrachm of Antoninus should look.

#4: Rome, Constantius II, FEL TEMP REPARATIO type. My only concern with this one is the large raised dot in the reverse field, above left of centre - that shouldn't be there.
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