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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Only a Poor Old Man, post: 5397935, member: 111037&quot;]Is it only me, I wonder, but I see many little differences between your potential fake and the (allegedly) established fake.</p><p><br /></p><ul> <li>The os and thetas on the reverse legends on the left seem to be much thicker on the forgery network coin.</li> <li>On the reverse, the bottom of the floating bit on Romanos&#039; garment seems to be slightly different including the angle it hangs from his left hand.</li> <li>on the obverse, the cross on Jesus&#039; halo (the top bit) is differently aligned in relation to his nose. That is a quite obvious difference.</li> <li>The overall level of wear is quite different, and the die rings seem slightly different especially on the reverse.</li> </ul><p>However, there are enough similarities on the dies that somehow you do feel the same dies were used one way or another. Wear can possibly be faked to make different versions of the same coin look different, and if this is the case, then it is a very elaborate fake.But how do you explain the little alignment differences on both sides?</p><p><br /></p><p>Could it be that one coin is real and the other is the fake that was inspired/copied from the real ones&#039;s dies? But in that case, which one is which? I think it is possible that in some cases real coins were condemned as fakes just because they were made using dies that were later copied from forgers. I find this whole situation rather unsettling and quite damaging to the level of confidence in our hobby.</p><p><br /></p><p>We need a technology similar to carbon dating that works for metals, and we need it fast![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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