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Is There A Book For Repro Roman?

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 Posted 02/27/2024  7:23 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Herberg to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I'm looking at my late father's collection. There are 6 Roman coins. My hunch is the "damage" is simulated, so it should be easy to prove they are fake if I can find pics of coins with identical damage.

I'm striking out with Google images. Is there an easy way to spot fakes?

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 Posted 02/27/2024  7:31 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add John1 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

I moved your thread to the proper section so members in the know can help you.
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 Posted 02/27/2024  7:47 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The FORVM website has an excellent database of fake ancient coins: https://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/

If you know more or less what you have, eg. "Trajan denarius" or "Rhodes didrachm", you can search the database to try to find a die match. If you don't know what you have, post some pics and we can help narrow down the search for you.

Finding a match is proof of fakeness, but not finding a match is not necessarily proof of genuineness.

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If it's a book, specifically, that you're after, I'm not aware of a comprehensive photo-book of fakes. But for general theory on ancient coin fakes, there's "Classical Deception" by Wayne G. Sayles. It has a good overview of basic types of fake/replica ancient coins, as well as a comprehensive listing of Peter Rosa's fakes.
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 Posted 02/28/2024  07:49 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add sel_69l to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
BOTH of Sap's recommendations are excellent.
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Are they that good that you couldn't tell they are fake otherwise? It's not easy finding matches.
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Easy? Only if they are really obvious. There are basically 3 ways to detect counterfeits: 1.) by identifying a "twin" in a printed catalog or online, 2.) by understanding the characteristics of genuine coins and identifying outliers, 3.) understanding and identifying characteristics common to counterfeit coins.

One website with many images of fakes that hasn't been mentioned is https://www.forgerynetwork.com/

Regarding books, a number of volumes in the series 'Coin Collections and Coin Hoards from Bulgaria' (CCCHBulg) deal with ancient coin counterfeiting, both catalogues of fakes, and discussions of counterfeiting methodology and resulting characteristics. Most of these volumes have been made available as free pdfs by Dr. Ilya Prokopov via his academia.edu page. There are many titles listed. You'll have to scroll through and pick out those of interest.

https://independent.academia.edu/IlyaProkopov

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