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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2514650, member: 19463&quot;]I have no problem with fakes that illustrate their type or are educational in some way as long as they are not pretending to be something they are not.&nbsp; Robert Ready electrotypes are the illustrations from the books published when coin photos were harder than they are now.&nbsp; Becker and Cavino originals are collectible in their own right but the status of their fourteenth generation casts are less lofty.&nbsp; High on my want list is the as of Pescennius Niger I met as a photo many years ago.&nbsp; It started as, I believe, a Severus Alexander or some such but was nicely tooled and a believable VG.&nbsp; I do not believe in marking fakes by anyone other than the maker.&nbsp; I really would hate to see coins I believe are fake branded just to discover later I was not so smart after all.&nbsp; The example here was the fake Domitian II that could have been marked before the found another and decided the first one was good after all.&nbsp; DNA testing can get a man off death row with his life but it does little for his lost lifetime.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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