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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Odysseus, post: 2426446, member: 78274&quot;]Tranfer dies used on silver are known already for ancient times, read this article by Stannard and Fischer-Bossert I shared some weeks ago on my blog:</p><p><a href="https://numismaticfakes.wordpress.com/2016/04/19/dies-hubs-forgeries-and-the-athenian-decadrachm/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://numismaticfakes.wordpress.com/2016/04/19/dies-hubs-forgeries-and-the-athenian-decadrachm/" rel="nofollow">https://numismaticfakes.wordpress.com/2016/04/19/dies-hubs-forgeries-and-the-athenian-decadrachm/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Today forgers use to newly engrave fake dies for the most expensive silver coins, (trying to imitate any smallest detail, even the distortions of dots on border) for a simple reason: often they cannot have access to the real rare/costly coin to transfer the negative into a mold to obtain the wax positive, so if they are enough skilled they try to engrave a new fake die using as model photos of the real coin. In these cases is possible to spot small inconsistencies (this is probably the case of dozens &quot;exceptional&quot; Alexander the Great silver drachms of Miletus recently sold by CNG and Heritage auctions, where the forger invented the reverse die, and used as model the obverse die of a sample in the ANS collection, identical in any detail, also distorted dots, but he missed the right range of the 9h section of the border).</p><p>But if the forger has availability of the authentic coin to be transferred on the new fake die, he certainly does, for both silver and gold coinage. For silver there are samples of Sicilian tetradrachms, Macedonian tetradrachms, Roman antoninianii, silver denarii of the social war, etc.; for gold coinage there are good samples in Prokopov&#039;s books.</p><p>The fake dies produced by transfer can be used to make both pressed or hand-struck forgeries.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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