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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Olisipo, post: 2522621, member: 75543&quot;]I&#039;ve been collecting ancient coins for three years now and I&#039;ve gotten used to finding duplicates while browsing online auctions. However, I don&#039;t feel at ease yet explaining it. Quite a few of them will be fakes, but you&#039;re also assured (specially by sellers) that such coincidences are perfectly possible. The way I see it there are three options for each case:</p><p><br /></p><p>A) All genuine centuries-old coins from a contemporary die.</p><p>B) All fakes from a modern die.</p><p>C) At least one fake from a die obtained from a genuine coin, which might or might not be among the samples.</p><p><br /></p><p>Assuming every collector has faced this dilemma, what do you usually focus on to get to your conclusion? Here&#039;s two examples to aid the discussion:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=435936" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=435936" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=435936</a></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2162507" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2162507" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2162507</a></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2529703" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2529703" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2529703</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1845252" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1845252" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1845252</a></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2213100" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2213100" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2213100</a></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=68131" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=68131" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=68131</a></p><p><br /></p><p>(By the way, I&#039;ve checked and none of them are featured at Forgery Network of FAC&#039;s database, so we&#039;re on our own.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Frankly, looking at each one separately I wouldn&#039;t suspect much (though the ones in the second set look odd), but common sense dictates than when dealing with mass produced objects such as these duplicates should be rare - and here we have triplicates. Further, differences in wear are slight at best.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, notice in the first set a couple of them have that &quot;cabinet toning&quot; dealers like to point out, so they certainly are somewhat old (unless &quot;cabinet toning&quot; can be faked, which I&#039;ve never heard about).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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