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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Eric Kondratieff, post: 2425472, member: 78618&quot;]Bing, it appears that each example all have the same corrosion pit in the midsection of the Triton, the same flaw in the crab&#039;s right claw (except for the recent tooled one in Kunker), and at 5 o&#039;clock on the Kunker coin (not Theo&#039;s), it&#039;s clear that the transfer die was incomplete, as the pellet shears off a little BEFORE the edge of the coin, where it should shear off (there is also a sort of threshold / line in that region). </p><p><br /></p><p>There were some Syracusan decadrachms of the Euainetos and Kimon types coming onto the market in the early 1990a which were clearly from transfer dies (I won&#039;t tell you who first educated me in looking for such things, but he is a well-known and highly regarded professional): the problem was that the legs of the horses at the front of the quadriga were cut short well before the edge of the overly-broad flan, indicating that the original from which the dies were made had been struck on a typically compact flan with the horses forelegs off the flan. This had slipped past the well-respected numismatists running the auction in which they appeared, but were withdrawn immediately upon notification. </p><p><br /></p><p>Nowadays I supposed a smarter forger would reengrave those details; but if you see a coin where the design cuts off oddly before the edge, that will be a pretty obvious sign of a problem coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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