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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3243635, member: 19463&quot;]To be of use, a Black Museum has to have the fakes well documented explaining the type fake being shown.&nbsp; Too often we see comments on fakes that show someone just does not understand the question.&nbsp; Style is important but casts copy the style of the original so it is pointless to say you don&#039;t like the style when the style is not the problem.&nbsp; Conversely, fake dies cut by modern hands (Slavey, Lippanoff, Becker etc.) produce struck coins without any sign of being cast.&nbsp; Then we get into cases where dies were used but show signs of being applied by pressing rather than striking or where the dies were cut using rotary tools that left tell tale marks even though the hammering and flan preparation were spot on.&nbsp; A drawer full of certain fakes needs to be studied every bit as much as our real coins if they are to give us any degree of protection.&nbsp;&nbsp; That still leaves the matter of whether we consider coins made in ancient times to be genuine &#039;ancient coins&#039; even if they were made outside the regular official mint.&nbsp; How do we tell the difference between a &#039;branch&#039; mint coin and a product of a ancient counterfeiter?&nbsp; The study of fakes might just be as complex as the study of the coins themselves.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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