A Fake In The Midst.....

Here's the story...live and learn.

I've been looking into coins of Ancient Spain and Iberia for a couple months now, picking up a few and doing research as best I can since most of the info is in Spanish.

Well, while doing some web searching I came across a site called Denarios.org/falsas, and what did I find?

One of my favorite coins listed with others as a cast fake.

Not only my coin, but my photo as well, taken off CCF from when I first posted it a long time ago.

Here is the coin, but a second photo of it.





After studying my coin carefully, and the site, and as many examples as I could find I tend to agree it is probably a fake, although a very good one.

Too late to return it as the seller had a 10 day return policy, but I wonder if I should inform him anyway, I wonder if he knew?. He is a reputable seller I believe and probably thought the coin was fine.

If you go through the site you'll see there are many coins believed to be fakes not only on ebay, but also by reputable dealers.

This is a relatively new site to post fake Iberians and over time I suspect it will grow a lot. On the web I've seen some for sale that are clones to ones posted there, and even to mine.

Although my coin and the other clones like it don't have the 'mother' coin presented, many of them do.

OK,enough, I'll put more info on the fake sticky later.

I've always thought it would be nice to have one of my coins as a plate coin, but I kinda coulda done without this one.

Aah shucks.....Live and learn.