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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1976243, member: 39&quot;]If one wants to draw a parallel - which, as you wrote, does not really work here - , somebody like Carl Wilhelm Becker comes at least somewhat close. He was a coin dealer, appreciated by famous collectors such as J. W. Goethe and M. A. Rothschild, but also made quite a bit of money by making elaborate reproductions of ancient and medieval coins. And he made &quot;coins that could have been&quot;. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Many bought from him in the early 19c ... and a museum in Offenbach (HE, DE) has about 500 Becker pieces. Even the Bundesbank Collection in nearby Frankfurt has some and lists one <a href="http://www.bundesbank.de/Redaktion/DE/Downloads/Bundesbank/Geldmuseum/antike_und_fruehmittelalterliche_iranische_muenzen.pdf?__blob=publicationFile" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.bundesbank.de/Redaktion/DE/Downloads/Bundesbank/Geldmuseum/antike_und_fruehmittelalterliche_iranische_muenzen.pdf?__blob=publicationFile" rel="nofollow">here</a> (PDF, German, see image p.7 and text p.8). Becker&#039;s dies were hand made, and he would even take his &quot;coins&quot; on horse carriage rides, in small boxes along with iron filings and grease. The rough country roads would do the rest, so that at the end the pieces had a sort of ancient look ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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