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Message:: [QUOTE="Finn235, post: 8219639, member: 98035"]There has been a HUGE uptick in forgeries of the extra rare/desirable monogram AE4s, facilitated mostly by the auction house Emporium Hamburg. Almost all of these AE4s are poor modern fakes:<a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=Monogram&category=1-2&company=35&lot=&thesaurus=1&images=1&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&currency=usd&order=0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=Monogram&category=1-2&company=35&lot=&thesaurus=1&images=1&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&currency=usd&order=0" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=Monogram&category=1-2&company=35&lot=&thesaurus=1&images=1&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&currency=usd&order=0</a> Here's a frightening thread on CCF where a member bought a Zenonis AE4 from a reputable dealer - I managed to trace the provenance back to Hamburg - a quick acetone bath confirmed my suspicion as all of the detail dissolved off the coin revealing that it was just a slug with fake patina applied to create a portrait and monogram.<a href="https://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=353775" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=353775" rel="nofollow">https://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=353775</a>[/QUOTE]