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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Theodosius, post: 8234942, member: 77077&quot;]Donna is correct. When the design of a coin ends before the flan, it can be the sign of a transfer die forgery. Say the coin used to make the transfer die was off center and part of the legend or beaded border or feet of the horses or something like that was off the flan. When they make the transfer die, it is missing this part of the design too. When the transfer die is struck on a larger flan to make a counterfeit then that part of the design is also missing. I always check for this when looking at Greek coins especially. Weird flan shapes and poor strikes can also cause this problem but it is not a good sign.</p><p><br /></p><p>NGC ancients experts have looked at literally hundreds of thousands if not millions of ancient coins and are among the top experts in the world. That is good enough for most people, check out the premium prices that ancients get in NGC slabs. They are doing a really valuable service to the community by helping to weed out fakes.</p><p><br /></p><p>John[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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