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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1878445, member: 19463&quot;]Rather than let a good thread go to waste, lets ask if there is a place for modern replicas in our hobby.&nbsp; They have been around for a long time.&nbsp; Some are good enough that they themselves get faked even if the original intent was not to deceive but to provide things to sell in museum shops or for jewelry when using a real coin would be out of the question.&nbsp; The first below is a copy of the Becker die Akragas with &quot;Becker&quot; on the edge and the more recent &quot;copy&quot; in the field. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]318119[/ATTACH] </p><p>The other two are modern dies that really are not deceptive if you know the proper style.&nbsp; They are made by a Czech firm Antiquanova in pot metal or silver.&nbsp; The silver ones are stamped with the company symbol but the cheap ones are not.&nbsp; The Naxos is $30 in silver and $3 in tin.&nbsp; Forty years ago I wore cufflinks and would have loved a set made from EID MAR denarii ($17 and $2 - prices reflect the metal used).&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]318121[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]318122[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Again not deceptive to those who know the real ones, many Slavei Petrov replicas in silver alloy (not pure but from old coins I have heard) have been passed off as fakes even though they were originally sold as what they are.&nbsp; My set was $4 each which is about melt now.&nbsp; They all have the same style and fabric which makes the 1st century ones more dangerous than the Pescennius Niger which is too good metal to be real. </p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/wslgroup.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>So what do you think?&nbsp; Is there a place for replicas of coins to serve as space fillers or jewelry?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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