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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 648470, member: 19463&quot;]Gao&#039;s answer was very good!&nbsp; The point to remember is that ancient counterfeits were made profit by containing less metal than appropriate.&nbsp; Ancient copies with full value metal were made to circulate where coinage was in short supply.&nbsp; India certainly did this but they were not alone.&nbsp; In many cases, these copies are as valuable today as the coins they copied since they really were the circulating coin of some region.&nbsp; Most are easily identifiable by their style.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Beginning collectors need to beware of modern copies.&nbsp; The best answer is to buy from dealers who you trust, who specialize in ancients and who guarantee &#039;for life&#039; purchases to be genuine.&nbsp; In time, you develop a feel for what looks right and what does not and you will start buying from people that know less about the coin than you do.&nbsp; We all make an occasional error.&nbsp; We all need to avoid buying things &#039;too good to be true&#039;.&nbsp;&nbsp; After seeing some of the Chinese copies of modern coins, I do not believe the &#039;problem&#039; in ancients is anything like as bad as the one in moderns but that mostly means that I have no experience handling 1793-4 US but have examined well over a thousand Roman coins from 193-4 AD.&nbsp; I could be fooled with either but I&#039;ll risk it with a 193 Roman and would not touch a US 1793 coin without papers.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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