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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Conduitt, post: 5200056, member: 109923&quot;]Yes, although I think the scenario you&#039;ve painted is precisely where Ancient counterfeits are easiest to detect. The inconsistency means if you see any two coins exactly the same, you know they are fake. If you have a factory in China churning them out, you can&#039;t make very many until they&#039;re noticed. So it&#039;s not very economical for them.</p><p><br /></p><p>In a factory you will also find it easier to mass produce fakes of coins that were mass produced themselves. That means perfectly round flans. With Ancients those stand out as fakes straight away.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ancients are misshapen, the design falls of the flan... on a fake you can see where the original they&#039;re copying was missing detail that it shouldn&#039;t be if the strike was positioned as on the copy.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the other hand, the weight and size of the coin is not the guide it is with modern coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lots of CoinTalk members have written about spotting and avoiding fakes:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/numis/fakes.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/numis/fakes.html" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/numis/fakes.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/fake.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/fake.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/fake.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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