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<p>[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 4693879, member: 85693"]I spend a lot of time looking at eBay ancients, and I'd agree Bulgaria, for some reason, is the locale for a lot of fakes. Some of them are obvious even to me, but they do have some skilled counterfeiters. On bronze coins, the Bulgarian fakers have a tendency to apply a very unconvincing green spray-on patina. Even if the die-work is good, the coins often looks pressed rather than struck. </p><p><br /></p><p>The OP looks alarmingly good to me - especially the ragged flan. Most of the Bulgarian fakes look too round, even if the die-work is good. It looks struck as well, rather than pressed. If it is a counterfeit, it scares me - it means they are upping their game.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 4693879, member: 85693"]I spend a lot of time looking at eBay ancients, and I'd agree Bulgaria, for some reason, is the locale for a lot of fakes. Some of them are obvious even to me, but they do have some skilled counterfeiters. On bronze coins, the Bulgarian fakers have a tendency to apply a very unconvincing green spray-on patina. Even if the die-work is good, the coins often looks pressed rather than struck. The OP looks alarmingly good to me - especially the ragged flan. Most of the Bulgarian fakes look too round, even if the die-work is good. It looks struck as well, rather than pressed. If it is a counterfeit, it scares me - it means they are upping their game.[/QUOTE]
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