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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 2659973, member: 82322&quot;]I am not certain.&nbsp; This series was faked in 1990 and published in <i>The Celator</i> as &quot;The Black Sea Hoard&quot;.&nbsp; Wayne Sayles wrote, as I recall, that a giveaway is that the eyes look more like eyes than eye slots in a helmet.&nbsp; I have not seen enough genuine and false specimens to be confident I understand the eye slots.</p><p><br /></p><p>I learned mine was fake when I proudly posted it on a site and Barry Murphy immediately found stylistic problems.&nbsp; Unfortunately problems of style that are obvious to someone like Barry are difficult to explain to a new collector without a background in art history, and I wasn&#039;t able to learn specific &quot;tells&quot; from him.</p><p><br /></p><p>Further inspection at extreme magnification revealed that the surfaces don&#039;t look like any genuine coins.&nbsp; Something strange is giving the appearance of advanced age.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]589900[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]589901[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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