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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pavlos, post: 7643390, member: 96635&quot;]I noticed there are coming more and more Lysimachos coins with these dies and I decided to make a post about it for people here to be aware of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>It started with this Pecunem example (which is a fake, confirmed by Mr. Murphy as well):</p><p><img src="https://www.numisbids.com/sales/hosted/pecunem/010/image00077.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><a href="https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?lot=77&amp;p=lot&amp;sid=589" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?lot=77&amp;p=lot&amp;sid=589" rel="nofollow">https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?lot=77&amp;p=lot&amp;sid=589</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Later on I started to notice some examples with these fske dies on Ebay, but well, that place is full of fakes so it was not that &#039;concerning&#039;.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, some time ago I started to see mules of these coins with the same reverse die; which were fantasy coins but were still listed at two auction houses:</p><p><img src="https://media.biddr.com/media/img/auction_lots/996/1065686_1582716376.l.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Very recently in an auction I saw two fakes of the same obverse and reverse dies again:</p><p><img src="https://media.biddr.com/media/img/auction_lots/1748/1899710_1620402659.l.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://media.biddr.com/media/img/auction_lots/1748/1899711_1620402659.l.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Note that the weight of these coins are sometimes not necessarily &quot;suspicious&quot;, the only way to detect the fake is by the fake die matches (in the case of the Pecunem example the wrong weight was pretty obvious though).</p><p>Mr. Murphy said: &quot;The letters are not cut properly in the die and the coin isn’t struck. There are no flow lines or metal movement.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>When you go shopping for a Lysimachos drachm, please be aware of these fake dies,&nbsp; they keep to be sold even at auction houses <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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