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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Only a Poor Old Man, post: 7503522, member: 111037&quot;][USER=120084]@mightyknighty[/USER] I understand your fears, and I am sure many collectors have it. But it doesn&#039;t only apply to coins, it more or less extends to everything collectable. As some say, if something is of value, people will try to make fake versions of it...</p><p><br /></p><p>There are fake coins yet to be discovered, that is probably to be expected. Are they so common though to such a degree that they will seriously ruin the hobby?</p><p><br /></p><p>To answer this, we need to think of two main principles. Difficulty and financial return. It is not easy to create the perfect forgery. It would have to be struck using traditional techniques, and the artistic style needs to be right too. On top of this, I imagine it must be difficult to recreate the natural wear and metallic surface of an object that was supposedly buried for 2000 odd years.</p><p><br /></p><p>To satisfy all of the above, I assume it would require skills, effort and time. Now would that be worthy from the forger&#039;s point of view? I imagine only if it was done in a sufficiently large scale. And this is where I think it goes wrong for the bad guys. I simply don&#039;t see how they would be able to throw in the market multiple coins from the same fake dies without collectors and dealers noticing it. If such a thing would happen, it would raise red flags and lead to increased scrutiny of said coins. To create only one or two examples and then create new fake dies simply sounds like too much hard work... Striking a coin is one thing but making a die is even harder. Not to mention that every artist has a signature style. Sooner or later the style of a specific forger may become noticeable. An alternative would be to try to create forgeries of very expensive and sought after coins so they don&#039;t have to rely on large numbers. I guess it may be possible, but those coins due to their price are scrutinized to a great degree by default so it would have to be a darn good forgery to escape the experts. </p><p><br /></p><p>All of the above is of course just a random non-professional opinion, but I think that there are enough real ancient coins out there and I hope that I won&#039;t be unlucky to ever buy a &#039;bad&#039; one. But if it happens, most proper dealers will offer a refund so personally I do not worry too much about it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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