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Hello all, Newbie is back :-) I have some strangely shiny coins, could you tell me what is it ?  |
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United Kingdom
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Looks like an alloy copy. Something made for the tourist market? Test the edge with caratest.
You will never soar like an eagle if you hang around with turkeys.....
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Valued Member
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Thanks MetDet what is testing the edge with caratest ?
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Yep, it's a fake coin, sorry. Specifically, it's a well-documented fake made by the Bulgarian fakemaster Slavey. Here's one on the FORVM fake database. As the comment on FORVM states, there's a basic error Slavey made on this coin: The name "Dionysos" is spelled wrong or rather, has the wrong grammatical case ending. On this coin, it ends in sigma (shaped like a sideways "M"). On genuine coins of this type, it's supposed to end in upsilon (shaped like a "Y"). Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Ahh, this is interesting. That's why the OP coin looks reasonably good, Slavey was a good fakester.
Are Slavey fakes collectable?
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Are Slavey fakes collectable? Not yet. Give 'em another hundred years, and they may be on par with Becker. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Valued Member
France
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Thanks very much for that detailed info sap.
Fakes may not be collectable but it seems I have a colelction of them :-)
About that sideaways M as a wrong grammatical ending. Would that be the case with other names. For example I have one writing Bazileum, should that end with Y in the same way ?
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It would indeed be the case with other names, but "basileos" isn't a name, it's a title: the Greek word for "king". Here's a coin of Alexander the Great, for example: the name "Alexander" ends in "Y" (ALEXANDROY) but the title "basileos" ends in sigma (sideways M - BASILEOS). Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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So if I understand well, that one would be correct as far as spelling is concerned ? Thanks for all these info  |
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