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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 8589874, member: 87809&quot;]Translated from the German Forum:</p><p><a href="https://www.numismatikforum.de/viewtopic.php?f=49&amp;t=36407" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.numismatikforum.de/viewtopic.php?f=49&amp;t=36407" rel="nofollow">https://www.numismatikforum.de/viewtopic.php?f=49&amp;t=36407</a></p><p>where I also asked about mine:</p><p><br /></p><p>At ANS you can find for comparison more than 700 that are not fakes, &quot;Their accession numbers (1948.19.778 and 1948.19.779) point to the year 1948.&quot; before the Bulgarian fakes flooded the market.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://numismatics.org/collection/1944.100.24042" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/collection/1944.100.24042" rel="nofollow">http://numismatics.org/collection/1944.100.24042</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://numismatics.org/collection/1948.19.778" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/collection/1948.19.778" rel="nofollow">http://numismatics.org/collection/1948.19.778</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://numismatics.org/collection/1948.19.779" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/collection/1948.19.779" rel="nofollow">http://numismatics.org/collection/1948.19.779</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://numismatics.org/search/results?q=fulltext%3Atetrobol+AND+imagesavailable%3Atrue+AND+fulltext%3AHistiaea" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/search/results?q=fulltext%3Atetrobol+AND+imagesavailable%3Atrue+AND+fulltext%3AHistiaea" rel="nofollow">http://numismatics.org/search/results?q ... 3AHistiaea</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Barry Murphy defined criteria for identifying fakes, but some of the Histaia coins at ANS that satisfy these criteria are not fakes, and among the ones he pictures are some that are not fakes:</p><p><a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=111737.msg738880#msg738880" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=111737.msg738880#msg738880" rel="nofollow">https://www.forumancientcoins.com/board ... #msg738880</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Barry Murphy : &quot;Please note the style of the obverse with the flowing hair, pointing</p><p>upwards, and the large pellets making up the flowers. This hair style</p><p>is not found on authentic examples. Also notice the rather poorly</p><p>executed reverse. On these forgeries AIEWN is always behind the</p><p>nymph, although this does exist on authentic examples as well. ISTI</p><p>is always before the nymph&#039;s feet. All have the wing on the prow,</p><p>some very poorly executed and none have any symbols below the prow&quot;</p><p><a href="http://bpmurphy.ancients.info/images/misc/histaiacomp.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://bpmurphy.ancients.info/images/misc/histaiacomp.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://bpmurphy.ancients.info/images/mi ... iacomp.jpg</a></p><p>doesn&#039;t seem to be a fake. This link is dead already but you can find it at the Way Back machine of archive.org here:</p><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180707235100/http:/ancients.info/forums/showthread.php?t=877" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180707235100/http:/ancients.info/forums/showthread.php?t=877" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20180707235 ... .php?t=877</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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