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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 3219488, member: 84744&quot;]A few respects in which it is <i>more</i> difficult to counterfeit ancient coins:</p><p><br /></p><p>1) You have to replicate a couple thousand years of aging in a fraction of that time.&nbsp; Very, very difficult.</p><p><br /></p><p>2) We don&#039;t actually know in detail how ancient coins were made, and different series were made differently.&nbsp; So it&#039;s not possible to replicate that process just by looking it up, and as [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] pointed out, experts will be able to tell the difference.</p><p><br /></p><p>3) The variation that [USER=82549]@gsimonel[/USER] points out is more of a curse to the counterfeiter than a blessing: a faker can&#039;t make many copies using the same dies, or the fraud will be easily detected.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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