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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2405216, member: 19463&quot;]This is the problem I see with most fakes databases.&nbsp; Looking at this new blog, I see several really obvious fakes from style and a few that I can see having a bit of a suggestion of a cast.&nbsp; This Philip is shown fake because it appears on a page of fakes in another database where it is one of several matching in style but not striking details so we call it &quot;struck from modern dies&quot;.&nbsp; Not being an expert in coins of the type, I could neither confirm nor deny that interpretation.&nbsp; It would help if such listings were accompanied with more detailed explanations of the evidence.&nbsp; For example, being a cast with sisters identical in every respect is all the evidence required.&nbsp; Being struck from dies completely unknown before last year with the sudden appearance of a dozen examples could use at least mention as could microscopic evidence of dies cut with power rotary tools.&nbsp; I am not questioning this coin being fake but simply stating that a resource would be more useful to my education with a bit more hand holding and walking through the process that led to the verdict beyond copying a listing in another database that offers no more detail. </p><p><br /></p><p>The killer here is probably &#039;wrong style&#039; which is very hard to put into words that will be clear to those of us on the outside.&nbsp; I see serious style problems with the Agrippa asses shown but am a bit more familiar with other coins of that type even though it is not a specialty of mine either.&nbsp; I many cases, illustrating a half dozen genuine dies would allow the bad one to stand out but the illustration of a half dozen die duplicates (not mold duplicates) shows little more than the fact they exist.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>As a criticism of the blog, I would offer the opinion that it will decreasingly useful as time passes because it will require indexing if we are to find a specific coin of interest.&nbsp; Now it is an interesting read but when it is ten time or a hundred times the size we will need a way of finding something other than the order in which it was posted.&nbsp; This indexing can be the difference between a blog and a &#039;proper&#039; web resource.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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