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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Al Kowsky, post: 8235366, member: 97383&quot;]Jack, Thanks for sharing your findings on the <b>ROSA AMERACANA </b>fake penny by <b>Peter Rosa. </b>I can&#039;t help but think that Peter Rosa was having some fun making this fake; there is an obvious pun with his name &amp; the name of the penny <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie85" alt=":smuggrin:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. Peter Rosa is best known for making copies &amp; forgeries of ancient coins &amp; he was good at it. Rosa started his own business in 1955 in the Bronx, NYC, &amp; was able to make a comfortable living making copies &amp; fake ancient coins <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. He named his business <b>Becker Manufacturing Company</b>, after the most famous coin forger <b>Carl Wilhelm Becker (1772-1830)</b>. Rosa was selling his copies &amp; fakes for $1.50 - $3.00 each. When I was &quot;young &amp; dumb&quot;, about 50 years ago, I unknowingly bought a Rosa fake denarius for $15.00 from a coin dealer in Rochester, NY <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie80" alt=":shame:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. In the year 2001 I bought a copy of <b>Classical Deception </b>by <b>Wayne G. Sayles</b>, &amp; much to my horror, I spotted a photo of a denarius just like my coin on page 175 <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />! Yup, my denarius was a Rosa fake <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. Pictured below is a photo of my coin along with the photo in Wayne&#039;s book, &amp; a photo of a genuine denarius for comparison.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1448585[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1448586[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1448587[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>RIC 0013a, Sear 7184. A genuine Geta denarius.</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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