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