FFC (Calico) coin references

There was a discussion back in July about the FFC (Calico) reference book. Is that book put out by Aureo & Calico the auction house? I just bid on one of their lots but in looking at the description, it makes reference to an FFC number. The discussion in July makes out that the FFC pictures and descriptions may be made up and do not exist. At least that was my take on the posting. Anyone have any experience with the FFC book or with Aureo & Calico? There are some other lots I am interested in, but if their offerings are questionable, I would reconsider.
Thanks,
BobC

 

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I had the same confusion. Apparently when people mention the Calico reference it is usually in the context of aureii.

The FFC book relevant to those Republican denarii is this book, or so I think. I do not own the book.

JF Molina, MF Carrera, X.Calico Estivill, Monographic catalog of the denarios de la republica romana (Incluyendo Augusto), 2002

 

Thanks. The posting in July made reference to some coins listed as being fantasy coins. Anyone know anything about that? If someone describes fake coins in a reference book and then uses that reference in their description, I have great concern.
BobC

 

The controversy involves the photoshopping of images in that book to create coins which were thought to exist but for which no examples were available (and perhaps never existed). More information can be found in this old Forum Ancient Coins thread:

http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=61331.0

Scroll down to Phil Davis's post. He recopied his writeup from an old Celator magazine.

"I was dismayed however to discover that many of the photos in FFC have
been doctored, in PhotoShop or something like it, to illustrate
varieties of which the authors could not locate actual coins."

I'm not concerned about the upcoming auction and those plate coins. It's not the coins which were doctored, it was creation from scratch of coins which don't exist.

 

Thanks again. So I guess that as long as the coin I receive if I win an auction is the same as the one they show, it doesn't matter if the reference was an altered picture; I'm not buying the reference coin.
BobC