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<p>[QUOTE="Drusus, post: 436450, member: 6370"]The bottom two I posted, and I could be wrong, but they appear NOT to be cast from an original...your looks soft, loss of sharpness, rough and bumpy, an imperfect image of the original features, as if its a cast of a cast of a cast (common for these). </p><p> </p><p>The middle one is one I know to be a reproduction, by that I meant to say I think someone reproduced it not by casting it directly from an original but by remaking it as closely as possible. These are very common. </p><p> </p><p>An original would be roughly 47 mm and almost 63 g. A cast of an original would be about the same size but the weight would vary. The reproductions, not cast from an original are often larger in size. Both are blackish bronze, or blackened bronze coated base metal. The two I posted above are blackened, one was cleaned. The original, as you can see, is not. They and many other coins and medal reproductions are used in things like this...good thing they use a reproduction. I have a bowl that has a very rare coin in it, its a fake but its still a cool little thing I got for cheap. It would be a shame to mess up such a lovely medal.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Drusus, post: 436450, member: 6370"]The bottom two I posted, and I could be wrong, but they appear NOT to be cast from an original...your looks soft, loss of sharpness, rough and bumpy, an imperfect image of the original features, as if its a cast of a cast of a cast (common for these). The middle one is one I know to be a reproduction, by that I meant to say I think someone reproduced it not by casting it directly from an original but by remaking it as closely as possible. These are very common. An original would be roughly 47 mm and almost 63 g. A cast of an original would be about the same size but the weight would vary. The reproductions, not cast from an original are often larger in size. Both are blackish bronze, or blackened bronze coated base metal. The two I posted above are blackened, one was cleaned. The original, as you can see, is not. They and many other coins and medal reproductions are used in things like this...good thing they use a reproduction. I have a bowl that has a very rare coin in it, its a fake but its still a cool little thing I got for cheap. It would be a shame to mess up such a lovely medal.[/QUOTE]
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