"We have his and Lanz's email correspondence on the subject, which is "not clear" only if you're accusing Nemo of forging that correspondence"...
I am always sceptical, if people pretend it was exactly as they said, without giving the other side the chance to respond. My experience is that...
It is really strange how all here seem to prejudge Lanz although NO ONE HERE CAN KNOW HOW IT REALLY was. You have only heard Nemos version and it...
[ATTACH] I am almost 100% sure Dr. Lanz will refund you the money and possibly apologize if you will show that die matches are offered as replicas...
I have now read forvm and found the casting twin and seeing your pictures of the edge makes me even more believing that your coin is genuine. The...
Why is the Hadrian supposed to be fake. Looks imho struck and authentic, but surface was harshly cleand with a brush and so you have very fine...
They knew in ancient times already about the different density of gold , silver and copper. See for example the very famous story about...
One huge problem of gold fourrees is that specific weight of gold is 19.3 grams per cubic centimeter and of copper 8.9 grams. The forgers can...
The legionary Denar in first post is imho most likely fake, obverse die match to fake recently withdrawn by Numismatik Naumann. They seem to be...
"CNG has perhaps the largest black cabinet around. It’s probably 7500-10000 items." How did they get so many ? If a coin at auction turns out to...
@ Bing your coin looks cast in pictures and there are twins one even with better details so it is clear that yours must be cast and can not be the...
Not possible to tell for sure if authentic from this small resolution pictures but looks pretty convincing so rather authentic than fake...
The first coin in this thread is a cast copy of a DEKADRACHM by the famus artist KIMON, you can still see the die flaw which goes through the eye,...
The Leontinoi tetradrachm is actually most likely fake but it can be very difficult to prove this and I hoped to get to know something new by...
I do not see any real difference to the proven authentic specimens with old pedigree in BM and ANS. I will not compare them with the specimens...
The Leontinoi is possibly form a different hard and was harshly cleaned which has removed the luster. How it is possible to tell if the metal in...
It is actually true that the planchets of transfer die fakes and modern die fakes are often wrong if you compare this plachets with planchets of...
Who said that all Leontinoi tetradrachms must be from the same hoard? How do you know that there has been only one hoard ? I assume looters went...
As mentioned before by PlanoSteve there is a chip on about 6 o clock on reverse and under this chip it looks crystallized and this chip +...
"Beim vorliegenden Stück handelt es sich um eine Nachamung des Ende 19./ Anfang 20. Jhd,." Nachamung is German word for "fake" (reproduction),...
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