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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;pprp, post: 5195068, member: 94602&quot;]There seems to be a great influx of different types of staters from Paphos in the market. Unfortunately this is also a chance for forgers to play their game. I managed to discover a fake one which I post here for the information of collectors and professionals ([USER=79368]@Barry Murphy[/USER]) </p><p><br /></p><p>The original:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1214412[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And the fake one:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1214411[/ATTACH]</p><p>1. The fake has numerous cracks along the edge which may point to the use of a press. However, this cannot be the single reason for condemning the coin as coins from Cyprus are frequently overstruck and authentic coins do exhibit flan cracks.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. Part of the bull was off the flan in the original. The forger took an imprint of it and reused it to create modern dies. The flan is big enough in the fake but still the face of the bull is not complete; the same with the front leg of the bull.</p><p><br /></p><p>3. The corrosion and die damage on the bull has been copied and transferred to the fake coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>4. The dotted border to the top and left sides has been manipulated/invented by the forger. The guilloche has also been manipulated.</p><p><br /></p><p>5. The biggest shock is the &quot;theta-omikron&quot; above the head of the eagle. The forger assumed it was a &quot;theta - omikron&quot; as the original he used had this part off the flan. The theta-omikron does not exist in the Cypriot script. The misinterpreted symbol on the original coin is a palmette.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is quite shocking for me that someone went into all this trouble to create a forgery and possibly gain a couple of hundred euros. I assumed that the process was quite costly and investing money to fool one or two collectors would not make much sense for this price tag. There is also the obvious trail of the original mother coin: sold in CGB and resold in Solidus within 2020. The forgers can be easily uncovered.</p><p><br /></p><p>I come back to my old conclusion: know the coin and hardly trust anyone.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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