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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dionysos, post: 2020207, member: 44191&quot;]Since I was the person who contacted Charles about that coin I should elaborate a little about my concerns I guess. I was, and I&#039;m still, not sure about its authenticity.</p><p><br /></p><p>First thing that attracted my attention, as Bing pointed out, was the surface &quot;roughness&quot; (pics not clear enough to see if the metal &quot;lumps&quot; are benign or not imo). Started researching around among fakes and found the following...</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v306/peninsule/Clipboard02-3.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Apparently of the same dies and, looking only at the reverse, exact same centering and flan shape.</p><p><br /></p><p>Researching some more I found several others, some of which combines either the obv. or rev. with other dies...</p><p><br /></p><p>Reverse...</p><p><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v306/peninsule/ObvRev-sm.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse...</p><p><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v306/peninsule/rg.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Now, the biggest problem here for me is... Are these dies modern or ancient ? Reid Goldsborough, on his site (where the last example came from), suggest that they are modern...</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://athenianowlcoins.reidgold.com/forgeries.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://athenianowlcoins.reidgold.com/forgeries.html" rel="nofollow">http://athenianowlcoins.reidgold.com/forgeries.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>On FAC, where the 2nd example came from, it is said that the coin in question is a &quot;...cast forgery made with molds created using the lost wax method&quot; (derived from a &quot;genuine coin&quot;)...</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/displayimage.php?pos=-915" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/displayimage.php?pos=-915" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/displayimage.php?pos=-915</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Then there&#039;s the light weight which, alone, would not be that troubling... But combined with the other evidences ???[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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