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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;furryfrog02, post: 3223023, member: 41219&quot;]I&#039;ve been looking at Roman forgeries for the last hour or so. I just found this quote that I thought was appropriate <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Pliny “the Elder” (Gaius Plinius Secundus, lived 23-79 CE, died in the eruption of <a href="https://www.coinweek.com/ancient-coins/ancient-roman-coins-vespasian-aureus-buried-at-pompeii/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.coinweek.com/ancient-coins/ancient-roman-coins-vespasian-aureus-buried-at-pompeii/" rel="nofollow">Mt. Vesuvius</a>) noted that some Romans of his era collected high-grade counterfeits:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>It is truly marvellous, that in this art, and in this only, the various methods of falsification should be made a study: for the sample of the false denarius is now an object of careful examination, and people absolutely buy the counterfeit coin at the price of many genuine ones!&quot;</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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