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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ryro, post: 3239415, member: 91461&quot;]With the seemingly endless stream of, &quot;Is this fake?&quot; posts I thought an educational (or at least commiseratory) thread on fakes I&#039;ve purchased and how I, a relative novice homo, figured they were fakes was in order. It&#039;s a true &quot;post of shame&quot; for me. Hopefully you all will pile on with your frustrating fakes and clues newbs can use to look out for this garbage.</p><p>1st is a beautifully obvious fake. You can practically smell the new coin smell on it.</p><p>Look at that. Some thoughtful person stamped VRL on the back to make folks aware this is a modern repro (reproduction). You can also see a very pronounced casting seem along the sides.</p><p>And still it didn&#039;t stop someone from not posting the reverse and selling it as authentic on ebay!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]847514[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]847515[/ATTACH]</p><p>(Don&#039;t worry mom. I trimmed my nails right after taking this pic)</p><p>Next up is a dream coin. No, not Sulla&#039;s dream. But close. This fake of the notorious dictator looks to good too be true...cause it is! They even took the time to put those cracks on the side (kind of like a recent &quot;is it fake&quot; Julius Caesar that was posted).</p><p>The &quot;tell&quot; for me was all those pimply looking casting bubbles.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]847521[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Another real heartbreaker was this Pupienus. What an interesting patina on this Denarii. A type of patination that I&#039;d never seen. That just happens to neatly cover up all of those craters and the overall mushiness of the modern forgery.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]847526[/ATTACH]</p><p>Here&#039;s one that should have been</p><p>pretty obvious. But I was eager and ignorant. The style simply doesn&#039;t match any of Pertinax coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]847539[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Lastly, an early Greek purchase of mine. I&#039;ve always enjoyed Gorgons on coin. This one was cheap and seemed like there were lots of them. Sadly, there are lots of them that are fakes!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]847540[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>There are many great resources for spotting fakes. I really like the Forum&#039;s Dr Ilya&#039;s fake coin report. Its helped me spot more then a couple. <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/</a></p><p>So, hopefully some of you learned something, feel a bit better about some of your mistakes (or at least got a chuckle at how many times this man has proven PT Barnum right). </p><p>Please pile on those modern fakes, mistakes and lessons learned.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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