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 Posted 09/14/2012  4:51 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add echizento to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I didn't consider the edge, but now I see what you mean. The coin looked otherwise normal, even the patina looked right. I would not have caught this as a fakes coin. I stand corrected. I learned something new today.
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 Posted 09/14/2012  5:37 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add saurabh to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Well not that I wouldnt say the coin CANT be fake....id definitely be surprised if it were.
The coin has probably been in my grandparents house for over 30 years and I found it along with some Ottaman Empire coins (i could put up the pics as well here)
are you pretty sure this one is fake ?
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 Posted 09/14/2012  5:43 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Dionysos to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
"are you pretty sure this one is fake ?"

No doubts for me, as fake as can be...
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Saurabh,

Im sorry to say it, but unless your grandparents were coin fakers and this is an original and the rest are casts, I see very little way it could be real. It could be silver, I doubt this too though. I suggest you try testing it for silver - be destructive if you like, its not going to harm its numismatic value.

I would keep it - its an excellent fake (the style is slightly off), but the real deal maker here is the patina/dirt. It looks the real deal. I suggest you buy a metal stamp and stamp an F into it, then keep it as if it were real.
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saurabh: It had me fooled this morning. My attribution is correct, but the coin is, regrettably, fake. The evidence is overwhelming. You mentioned that your grandparents must have had the coins for more than 30 years. Many of the better fakes were made more than 30 years ago. Lipanoff fakes began surfacing in the 80's I believe. By all means, post the Ottoman coins here. We don't see many here, but someone may be able to ID them. I'm sorry for the bad news my friend.
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Yes, sorry, it is indeed a fake, of the type listed on FORVM and linked to by Dionysos. The key indicator to me is the identical fashion the "C" is missing from the beginning of the reverse legend. Both this coin and the one on FORVM say "OS V" instead of "COS V", and there's a "hyphen" or "underscore" where the C is supposed to be. Presumably on the original coin used as the model for this copy, the poor centring highlighted by Dionysos meant that most of the "C" had fallen off the edge of the flan, and the hyphen/underscore is all that's left of it.
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