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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Al Kowsky, post: 3366508, member: 97383&quot;]Carthago, I urge all CoinTalk members to download the study in your post, it focuses on the the Athenian dekadrachm fake that was offered for sale by Gemini &amp; Heritage on April 14, 2011. This magnificent fake had a number of the worlds top experts fooled including Harlan Berk, David Vagi, &amp; the staff at Heritage. Harlan Berk took an enormous loss on the coin that I believe he was never able to recover. See photo below.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]892964[/ATTACH] </p><p>Not only was this coin condemned as a fake, but another Athenian dekadrachm offered by CNG in their Triton X auction on January 9, 2007 was linked to this coin &amp; also exposed as a fake made by the same forger, see photo below.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]892971[/ATTACH] </p><p>These coins represent the quintessence of of the forgers art. What made these coins so difficult to detect was the idea that some numismatists proposed that coin hubbing was used by the ancient Greeks in manufacturing these dekadrachms. So similarities on these two specimens was written off to die hubbing, but little did they know that a modern forger used this technique to make these fakes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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