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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 4862906, member: 24314&quot;]<span style="color: #0080ff"><span style="color: #0000b3">ernstk, posted:&nbsp; &quot;When you cant be sure from obvious images what is fake and what is real, There is no point to prove or argue with you. Think whatever you want it doesn&#039;t change reality. But keep in mind </span><b><span style="color: #0000b3">I <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie33" alt=":cigar:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie57" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> am getting paid <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie90" alt=":spitoutdummy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> by lots of sasanian collectors for authenticity matters as I am one of best known experts <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> in Sasanian coinage. I have authored a book <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie26" alt=":bookworm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> in sasanian coinage and my opinion on them is surely more accepted by the serious sasanian collectors than <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie30" alt=":bucktooth:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> yours.&quot;</span>&nbsp; </b></span></p><p><br /></p><p>Great, You are the kind of poster we all welcome to a coin form.&nbsp; I am not an expert in that series and I don&#039;t claim to be!&nbsp; Nevertheless, I suggest you get a book on the English language. I never said the posted coin was a counterfeit.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>PROOF:&nbsp; &quot;Insider, post: 4828093, member: 24314&quot;]<b><i><span style="color: #b30000">I don&#039;t have an opinion on this one.</span></i></b>&nbsp; Authentication of any reasonably good fake requires magnification.&nbsp; One thing to always check on a coin suspected to be a sast c/f is the weight and specific gravity (tricky with all the fissures on ancients).&nbsp; Very often, besides an edge seem, their will be evidence of filing to get the weight &quot;right.&quot;</p><p>Unfortunately, as I posted before, the good fakes are die struck - usually with a much better style, surface, and appearance than a genuine specimen.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>To which you replied: <span style="color: #0000b3">ernstk, replied: &quot;What is your evidence that this is cast? This coin is absolutely genuine. Patina is right style is consistent. It is harshly cleaned and has evidence of horn silver there is nothing wrong in this coin to condemn it as forgery.&quot;</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #b300b3">DonnaML, posted: &quot;...Although I must say I don&#039;t know how anyone could reasonably interpret your response as a &quot;condemn[ation]&quot; of the coin as a forgery, given your express statement that you &quot;<b>don&#039;t have an opinion on this one</b>!&quot;</span></p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, Earnest, that also explains why you think a normal European coin in an ANACS slab is a counterfeit.&nbsp; That coin is very, very far out of your field of expertise! Perhaps you should follow my example and only post on something you actually know about.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>PS&nbsp; I think there may be a few of us who would like to check out your book that is titled:&nbsp; _________________________________________________.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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