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<p>[QUOTE="red_spork, post: 2269317, member: 74282"]Charles,</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm not a fan of either of the posted coins in this thread, nor the Cleopatra Thea. Unfortunately the images are not great, so it could be a result of that, but as Ken has shown, the original coin in this thread is a definite fake. AS far as the Macedonian tetradrachm, I do not like the look of it at all either: the fabric looks wrong, but I can't put my finger on exactly what. I also see the same worrying signs on the Cleopatra Thea even and it is too similar to this one for me: <a href="http://www.forgerynetwork.com/asset.aspx?id=jWFDyHEOFlE=" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forgerynetwork.com/asset.aspx?id=jWFDyHEOFlE=" rel="nofollow">http://www.forgerynetwork.com/asset.aspx?id=jWFDyHEOFlE=</a> . Unfortunately the image of the known forgery is quite bad as well, too bad to be of any use to me, but if I were you I would examine it against the coin you have in-hand and try to determine if they match.</p><p><br /></p><p>Honestly, if I were you I would get my money back from this seller and go elsewhere. This seller is a fakeseller selling stuff like this and any coin he has should be considered guilty by association.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="red_spork, post: 2269317, member: 74282"]Charles, I'm not a fan of either of the posted coins in this thread, nor the Cleopatra Thea. Unfortunately the images are not great, so it could be a result of that, but as Ken has shown, the original coin in this thread is a definite fake. AS far as the Macedonian tetradrachm, I do not like the look of it at all either: the fabric looks wrong, but I can't put my finger on exactly what. I also see the same worrying signs on the Cleopatra Thea even and it is too similar to this one for me: [url]http://www.forgerynetwork.com/asset.aspx?id=jWFDyHEOFlE=[/url] . Unfortunately the image of the known forgery is quite bad as well, too bad to be of any use to me, but if I were you I would examine it against the coin you have in-hand and try to determine if they match. Honestly, if I were you I would get my money back from this seller and go elsewhere. This seller is a fakeseller selling stuff like this and any coin he has should be considered guilty by association.[/QUOTE]
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