2020 Raspberry Awards

In the category for least convincing fake I nominate



In the category for worst tool job, will the artist responsible for this abomination please step forward to claim your gold medal



Submit your nominations!
We should make this an annual contest :-D

Rasiel

 

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Does it have to be Ancients?

 

I really liked the tooling on this - the "artist" went crazy with the pearls until it looks like a snake is coiled around her head. It was on eBay a while back:

 

A classical. I almost got caught.

 

Currently for sale on ebay. He looks happy, at least.

 

From the wonderful Coinlandia on ebay

 

Antoninus Pius as Abraham Lincoln. Or the other way round.

 

A real smiley face/emoji!

 

nomination for fake coin , often seen as a supposed tetradrachma from Athens, the Gonzo tet:



nomination for tooled:

 

Oh wow, that Eid Mar looks like a representation of Homo Erectus!!

LMAO

 

Its not these "dumkopfs" we have to worry about. The coins are so bad, even a six year would not be fooled.
On the otherhand, there are coins out there that are so well crafted, all of us would be taken. Again I point out that NFA Ahenobarbus aureus.

 

..Abraham Pius....^^

 

I nominate this coin for a special achievement Rasberry in the "Tooled Tool" category:

 

I nominate this for worst tool job. Look at the face of Acheloios! Sold for something like $750 (at CNG!):

 

And the runner-ups are:

Someone paid $700 for.... for...... whatever this is



When you thought it clever to get the Cliff's Notes version of Tooling for Dummies



What can I say? Just speechless

 

Oh wow-- those are all so funny! Thanks for the laughs .

 

Yeah, $767. I was watching that lot repeating to myself "There must be something about that coin that I don't know". I bid on the other Neapolis, but lost.

 

The other was nice.

 

My nomination for least convincing fake, from a seller who Ken Dorney referred to in an old CT post as "the most notorious purveyor of fakes in the world." Yours for just $700:


The coin combines an obverse of the Parthian king Gotarzes II with the reverse of a rare Seleukid issue of Cleopatra Thea & Antiochos VIII. Listed, unattributed, as authentic for $700.

This fellow's site is riddled with fakes, including lots of bogus Parthian gold coins at $3,000 a pop. (As Mike Markowitz of Coinweek pointed out some years ago, “there were no authentic Parthian gold issues.”)

A close runner-up from this particular seller would be the one below, with a fantasy - and most definitely not Parthian - bust, listed as authentic, for $700:

 

Ah, yes ... the notorious Sadigh Gallery.