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Message:: [QUOTE="Jaelus, post: 2457206, member: 46237"]Artex was a company owned and operated by the Hungarian mint for producing restrikes of classic Hungarian coins in the mid 1960s. Restrikes of dozens of coins were produced, including patterns, and klippes, and the quality of the restrikes were excellent. Most had 1,000 pieces struck, but some had very few (even in the single digits) or several thousand struck. There are several ways of identifying an Artex restrike. For smaller coins, most have a rosette added either on the obverse before the legend for silver, or for base metal coins, on the reverse below the mint mark or above the denomination. For larger coins, most have a UP somewhere, usually near the mint mark. For some coins (I believe exclusively with smaller gold restrikes), the coins are unmarked but use dates that had no original issues struck. Some restrikes for types with a lettered edge were restruck with a plain edge instead. I've seen types that have as many as three Artex restrike versions, each identifiable through a different marker than the others. Some restrikes are completely unmarked or have unmarked variants. This is especially true for the large silver (5 Korona) and gold (100 Korona) restrikes. Confusingly, original proofs of these were struck, so you have both original proofs and unmarked proof restrikes. If anyone knows of a good way to tell the difference for these (die markers for example) please post it up here as well.[/QUOTE]