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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1838860, member: 19463&quot;]It is not just the dies that match but the two have harder to explain similarities.&nbsp; Notice that the flans are not perfectly round and even.&nbsp; This is correct for ancients.&nbsp; Notice that both coins have extra metal outside the obverse at the same places and are close in at the same places.&nbsp; That is not good.&nbsp; Look at pits and flaws on the surface of the face.&nbsp; A couple of them are the same on both coins.&nbsp; A pit in a die would be raised on the coin but matching recessed flaws suggests the two were made from a common ancestor that had that flaw.&nbsp; These coins to not match perfectly in all these ways so I suspect that individuals were filed on the edges and beat up a bit so they would look different.&nbsp; There are many things to consider when evaluating a possible fake.&nbsp; If a coin fails one or two points we might be able to explain the problem away with some other answer that allows the coin to be real.&nbsp; That is not the case here.&nbsp; The holed Syracuse dekadrachm is about as poor quality fake as we get.&nbsp; The Alexander is not much better.&nbsp; The two Sasanians that match condemn each other but are too soft or mushy to be convincing even alone.&nbsp; The remaining Sasanian is a better job and I could be convinced that it should be seen in hand by someone who knows the series before saying 100% it is bad.&nbsp; There are some things I don&#039;t like about it but I could explain them away judging just from the photo.&nbsp; I still think it is a fake but it crosses into the group that needs to be seen in hand or at least a much better photo.&nbsp; It also suffers from the company it keeps.&nbsp; It appears to have damage on the reverse rear as if it once did time as a tie tack but had the pin removed.&nbsp; That might be the best use for it again.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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