Posted 04/12/2013 01:43 am
leadenhall: It's good to see that you have a healthy suspicion of these.
I don't know anything worthwhile about this series to pick a fake, but I would sure like to include a genuine example in my collection.
Fortunately, I have a good relations with one of the leading dealers in Australia, who has access to one of the top ten numismatic reference libraries in the World, literally, thousands of books in it. Perhaps some others in the CCF may know of this library.
I consider myself to be in the very fortunate position to do due diligence regarding authenticity, if such a piece were to come my way.
From the minuscule expertise I have in this series (I mean next to nothing), the piece illustrated looks OK to me, but if I were to consider buying a similar piece, at the very least, I would have it weighed and comparatative ring tone test done. Unfortunately, a similar genuine coin against which it could be compared, most probably would not be available.
I don't know anything worthwhile about this series to pick a fake, but I would sure like to include a genuine example in my collection.
Fortunately, I have a good relations with one of the leading dealers in Australia, who has access to one of the top ten numismatic reference libraries in the World, literally, thousands of books in it. Perhaps some others in the CCF may know of this library.
I consider myself to be in the very fortunate position to do due diligence regarding authenticity, if such a piece were to come my way.
From the minuscule expertise I have in this series (I mean next to nothing), the piece illustrated looks OK to me, but if I were to consider buying a similar piece, at the very least, I would have it weighed and comparatative ring tone test done. Unfortunately, a similar genuine coin against which it could be compared, most probably would not be available.
