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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2170918, member: 56859&quot;]Bad news, Mikey.&nbsp; The Histiaia appears to be one of the numerous fakes.&nbsp; The hairstyle is the giveaway.&nbsp; Compare <a href="http://bpmurphy.ancients.info/images/misc/histaiacomp.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://bpmurphy.ancients.info/images/misc/histaiacomp.jpg" rel="nofollow">to this page assembled by Barry Murphy</a>:</p><p><img src="http://bpmurphy.ancients.info/images/misc/histaiacomp.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>From a Barry&#039;s post on another forum:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;These keep appearing in various venues, so I thought I&#039;d make a composite image for everyone to study. This is a large image so it may take awhile to load. Images were taken from many sources and I didn&#039;t feel like taking the time to resize them all, so they are not to scale.</p><p><br /></p><p>These fakes first hit the market weeks after the 1999 New York hoard of Apollonia Ponticas. They were manufactured by the same people. Like the Apollonias, these were returned to the source but have been coming out through other channels. Some are being corroded to make them look older, but the styles are very distinct.</p><p><br /></p><p>Please note the style of the obverse with the flowing hair, pointing upwards, and the large pellets making up the flowers. This hair style is not found on authentic examples. Also notice the rather poorly executed reverse. On these forgeries AIEWN is always behind the nymph, although this does exist on authentic examples as well. ISTI is always before the nymph&#039;s feet. All have the wing on the prow, some very poorly executed and none have any symbols below the prow.</p><p><br /></p><p>Please study these photos. They are all fake.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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