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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Barry Murphy, post: 3810418, member: 79368&quot;]Sorry I’m late to the discussion.</p><p><br /></p><p>The fake leontinis published by the IAPN were indeed missing the flaw behind the eye. All leontinis that are missing the flaw are forgeries in my opinion. I’ve seen maybe 20 of these, and even not considering the missing flaw, they all fail in other aspects as well; flans aren’t made correctly, they are pressed not struck etc....</p><p><br /></p><p>That in no way means that all leontinis with the flaw are genuine. Over the last several year’s I have seen quite a few modern transfer die forgeries with the flaw. As most dealers assume the the flaw = genuine, these pass the market relatively easily.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin that started this thread is in my opinion one of the modern forgeries. Luckily most of the genuine examples from this pair of dies come from a single hoard, and most are very high grade with good metal. This allows for easy study of the dies, strike and luster characteristics of this series. The luster on this coin is wrong and the metal, at least in the photo, is clearly modern. I may have seen this coin in hand a few months ago, but I’m not in the office to check the photos, but it looks a coin that recently crossed my desk. I’ll check next week when I return.</p><p><br /></p><p>Barry Murphy[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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