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<p>[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 2744022, member: 76194"]Look at the headband on Orodes II. You can see tiny little pockmarks from the casting process. Looks like the original coin was used to cast some dies, and then the dies were used to strike the flans.</p><p><br /></p><p> As a matter of fact, the entire surface looks weird. Plus any dealer who doesn't suspect all those "die matches" in the first place is either gullible, careless, or in on the fraud himself. I honestly don't care to find out which one he is. I will not buy from him, and V-coins is seriously hurting their reputation with me by tolerating this stuff.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 2744022, member: 76194"]Look at the headband on Orodes II. You can see tiny little pockmarks from the casting process. Looks like the original coin was used to cast some dies, and then the dies were used to strike the flans. As a matter of fact, the entire surface looks weird. Plus any dealer who doesn't suspect all those "die matches" in the first place is either gullible, careless, or in on the fraud himself. I honestly don't care to find out which one he is. I will not buy from him, and V-coins is seriously hurting their reputation with me by tolerating this stuff.[/QUOTE]
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