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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Carthago, post: 2472749, member: 76111&quot;]Yes, they can be! </p><p><br /></p><p>As Volodya aptly pointed out, IV. Transfer Dies is the biggest threat.&nbsp; They employ the correct style of authentic specimens with the physical manufacture of striking or pressing, usually on an ancient flan so the metal is also ancient.&nbsp; The key to transfer dies, aside from being able to recognize overstriking or signs of pressing, is that there will usually be variations in the authentic style due to the forger having to touch up the final dies for areas that didn&#039;t transfer well or weren&#039;t on the host coin used for the forgery.&nbsp; To recognize this, you must become <u>intimately</u> familiar with the most minute details when comparing a potentially fake coin to a known authentic piece from say, the British Museum or other authoritative source.&nbsp; It is true detective work.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>For those who are interested in an in-depth education on the process of determining transfer fakes, please read this paper about how a forgery of an unbelievably valuable Athenian Dekadrachm was proven false.&nbsp; This just happened a few years ago, as this coin was offered as an auction headliner at NYINC a few years ago and had passed through some very, very experienced dealers&#039; hands on the way to the auction block, only to be pulled at the last minute.&nbsp; I learned a lot by reading this paper and employing it&#039;s methods, where I have identified transfer fakes of rather large significance, having more than one pulled from auctions because of it.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://stannard.info/stannard_fischer_bossert_dies_hubs_forgeries_and_the_athenian_decadrachm.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://stannard.info/stannard_fischer_bossert_dies_hubs_forgeries_and_the_athenian_decadrachm.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://stannard.info/stannard_fischer_bossert_dies_hubs_forgeries_and_the_athenian_decadrachm.pdf</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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