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<p>[QUOTE="maridvnvm, post: 3081636, member: 31620"]I suspect that the cost to produce these in Bulgaria was quite nominal. These were being distributed in "premium uncleaned" lots and occasionally salted into low grade lots of uncleaned. The "premium uncleaned" were being offered in batches of 6,000 at Eur 3 per coin. They were being mixed with the equivalent fakes (I assume from the next generation batch from these) of Carus, Probus etc. like those below.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/albums/userpics/10618/Probus_Carus_Fake_Ants2.JPG" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/albums/userpics/10618/prob6.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>These then started emerging on the market post "cleaning" and sold for about Eur 20 each.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/albums/userpics/10618/Carus~0.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="maridvnvm, post: 3081636, member: 31620"]I suspect that the cost to produce these in Bulgaria was quite nominal. These were being distributed in "premium uncleaned" lots and occasionally salted into low grade lots of uncleaned. The "premium uncleaned" were being offered in batches of 6,000 at Eur 3 per coin. They were being mixed with the equivalent fakes (I assume from the next generation batch from these) of Carus, Probus etc. like those below. [IMG]http://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/albums/userpics/10618/Probus_Carus_Fake_Ants2.JPG[/IMG] [IMG]http://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/albums/userpics/10618/prob6.jpg[/IMG] These then started emerging on the market post "cleaning" and sold for about Eur 20 each. [IMG]http://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/albums/userpics/10618/Carus~0.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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