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<p>[QUOTE="lehmansterms, post: 2963036, member: 80804"]Not at all sure where you get the idea that an age-eroded surface like that seen on this coin is the result of it being a modern cast - but no, that is a completely believable piece which has been left very close to the state in which it was discovered and has not (as is all too common) been cleaned to within an inch of its life (and removal of any evidence of authenticity) by someone enamoured of all things "shiny". It might be possible that a very skilled forger could have degraded a struck or pressed modern copy to give it a surface similar to that acquired over a couple millennia-worth of "diagenesis", but someone with those skills could have employed them far more profitably faking other types.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lehmansterms, post: 2963036, member: 80804"]Not at all sure where you get the idea that an age-eroded surface like that seen on this coin is the result of it being a modern cast - but no, that is a completely believable piece which has been left very close to the state in which it was discovered and has not (as is all too common) been cleaned to within an inch of its life (and removal of any evidence of authenticity) by someone enamoured of all things "shiny". It might be possible that a very skilled forger could have degraded a struck or pressed modern copy to give it a surface similar to that acquired over a couple millennia-worth of "diagenesis", but someone with those skills could have employed them far more profitably faking other types.[/QUOTE]
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