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How To Fake A Tetradrachm...

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 Posted 08/19/2016  2:57 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add FVRIVS RVFVS to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I would add that the Roman 'replicas' posted by Athalbert are quite easy to spot ....... aren't they ?
Too easy ! It is almost as if they were purposely made to be obvious.
From just a glance at the Greek replicas it can be seen that the dies were cut by an "artiste" of not inconsiderable talents.
If he/she had wanted the Romans to look real it is rather obvious they would have made them look real.
Although the Augustus has enough going for it that with some 'distressing' it would probably pass muster for more than a few near sighted numismatists !
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 Posted 08/19/2016  3:53 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add antwerpen2306 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
As Furius Rufus wrote , the Roman replicas are easy to spot , this coins look like the fake Roman coins from Bulgaria .
For the Greek ones , for me there is something wrong with the style , fe : the first tetradrachm from Syracuse , the horseman is not well represented , to rigid , I don t know how to say in English . The same for the second , a didrachm of Tarentum , there is something wrong with the style , it is not fluent enough .
All this coins remenber me the copies you can buy in in Athens on the street .
I don t think you will ever find this coins by a good coin dealer and coins of this value are normally not selled by individuals , IMO .albert
ps : for expensive coins : http://www.ebay.at/sch/m.html?_nkw=...mosch&_sop=1
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