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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1345452, member: 26302&quot;]Education. Are you saying Jello you cannot tell a fake coin most of the time for US coins? Modern coins are actually harder to tell, since they were machine made so easier to die transfer. A cast is fairly easy to tell, so to fake an ancient you have to use ancient techniques. If you use ancient techniques it means the flan preparation, die engraving, etc. I would say faking an ancient is harder to do that faking a modern coin. Most of the time fakers simply get the style wrong.</p><p><br /></p><p>You are very right there are fake ancients, many are posted here every week. Many come from cereal box promotions from the 60&#039;s and the like. The ancient field, since we have been dealing with them for hundreds of years, simply is more versed with dealing with them than other fields that haven&#039;t had such a problem until recently.</p><p><br /></p><p>Should someone who hasn&#039;t personally handled a ton of ancient coins and educated themselves on them buy coins from just anywhere? Of course not, new collectors should buy from ancient dealers, or have an ancient collector help them. Once you spend a number of years around these, you start recognizing the fakes for what they are, and learn how to spot 90% of them in 5 seconds if the coin is in your hand.</p><p><br /></p><p>Btw Jello, you mention fakes &quot;made at the same time&quot;, that would be a contemporary counterfiet. Those are just about as valuable as authentic coins, and very interesting. We have no problem with coins if they are of the correct age, on who minted them. There are some wonderful collections of &quot;limes&quot; coins, imitation Roman coins made on the outskirts of the empire. I own a few myself, and love them. In many ways a lot of celtic coins could be classified as contemporary counterfiets, since they were imitating Greek issues in their designs. I prefer the celtic coins to the greek ones. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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