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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 8286308, member: 84744&quot;]Interesting observation.&nbsp; Of course I agree that Emporium Shamburg has been selling these fakes for years... they&#039;re instantly recognizable.&nbsp; I always thought they were re-striking slugs and that the raised parts were original metal, very interesting to read (at the link you posted) that at least some of the raised parts are organic.&nbsp; ([USER=56859]@TIF[/USER], do you know if the sintered metal clay you used to make some Iguanasus coins would dissolve in acetone, at least partly?)</p><p><br /></p><p>I agree the two coins are a close match and so somehow related.&nbsp; But I do wonder if the CNG coin was maybe used as a source.&nbsp; It obviously has way more detail and doesn&#039;t have the telltale fabric present on all the Shamburg coins.&nbsp; It wouldn&#039;t be surprising if, at least at first, the fakers worked from original coins.&nbsp; The Shamburg example is from <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=julius+nepos&amp;category=1-2&amp;company=35&amp;lot=&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;images=1&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;currency=usd&amp;order=2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=julius+nepos&amp;category=1-2&amp;company=35&amp;lot=&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;images=1&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;currency=usd&amp;order=2" rel="nofollow">early in the run of these</a>.&nbsp; I would say they&#039;ve become progressively less careful to model them after genuine coins, perhaps to avoid just this kind of transfer die match.</p><p><br /></p><p>It would be interesting to look at some of the other types they&#039;ve faked and see if there are original models for some of the earliest productions.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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