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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lolli, post: 3282647, member: 96900&quot;]I do not understand the argument </p><p>&quot;Have you seen their offerings of forgers&#039; dies?&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>If he would have offered a die fitting to the Septimius Aureus it would have been a good argument but his dies have noting to do with the coins he is selling !!!</p><p><br /></p><p>We should judge the coin only this is most reliable !</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>His other coins look authentic!</p><p>His Parthian drachm</p><p><a href="http://store.barakatgallery.com/product/parthian-silver-drachm-of-king-orodes-i/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://store.barakatgallery.com/product/parthian-silver-drachm-of-king-orodes-i/" rel="nofollow">http://store.barakatgallery.com/product/parthian-silver-drachm-of-king-orodes-i/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>And his Sassid drachm look completely authentic. </p><p><a href="http://store.barakatgallery.com/product/silver-drachm-of-sassanid-king-khosrow-ii/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://store.barakatgallery.com/product/silver-drachm-of-sassanid-king-khosrow-ii/" rel="nofollow">http://store.barakatgallery.com/product/silver-drachm-of-sassanid-king-khosrow-ii/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>And that they are a die match to a coin suspected to be fake is meaningless if you do not understand why the coin in reports is fake.</p><p><br /></p><p>They seem to be transfer die fakes from an authentic mother.</p><p>So die matches can be authentic or fake.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is another very suspicious on with the same problem as both coins here</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1161391" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1161391" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1161391</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is an authentic example from the same dies</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4833943" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4833943" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4833943</a></p><p><br /></p><p>You can see on the authentic example that there was a die break on the reverse over geta´s head left to the F of Felicitas and one from the first E of Felicitas to the head of Doma. </p><p><br /></p><p>On the suptected coins the fields are lifeless and fine details are missing and to soft. look for example at the die break left to felicitas there is a pearl on the die break which should not be and the the last part of the die break is missing. </p><p>there is a hole in the hair of Caracalla and a hole in bust of Caracalla . </p><p><br /></p><p>This holes are circular and possibly casting defects or from air bubbles.</p><p>That they are visible on both suspected coins mean that they must be in the transfer dies. </p><p><br /></p><p>I do not think that the prearl on the the break and the holes can be different explained that the coins are fake.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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