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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;maridvnvm, post: 3001524, member: 31620&quot;]I will trot out this image again. I put this montage together (click to enlarge) which was a sample of the coins for sale from a single dealer. I just picked out single examples of coins from his offerings to illustrate the die linkages.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/albums/userpics/10618/Montage_lined.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>These are created (apparently struck) from modern dies. As a result you don&#039;t get matching flans etc. as with casts. You get flan cracks as you would on other struck coins. I have even seen some where they were tumbled in Rock tumblers to create artificial wear.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some coins are then silvered. Some are chemically toned. Some have a mix of the above and are then encrusted with dirt and then thrown in with uncleaned coin batched to salt them.</p><p><br /></p><p>These were being sold into the uncleaned supply chain at around Eur 5 each. The cost of production, even including the chemical toning, dirt application must mean that even this Eur 5 is worth the effort. At one point they were being offered to dealers in batched of 1,000.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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