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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Al Kowsky, post: 3162414, member: 97383&quot;]<b><i>On April 25th of this year CNG sold a number of fake ancient coins from the late Jonathan Kern collection. Several coins from that group caught my eye, especially the fakes made by the master forger Carl Wilhelm Becker, 1772-1830. The real eye popper was the coin pictured below, a fake Naxos tetradrachm, c. 430-415 BC. The coin had an estimate of $200 &amp; I was willing to go to $300 to get it. I nearly fell out of my chair when I saw the price realized, $2,875.00 !!! I did manage to buy one handsome Becker fake from that auction for $138, pictured below the Naxos tetradrachm. It is a Greco-Baktrian tetradrachm of Heliokles Dikaios, c. 145-130 BC, &amp; had an estimate of $100.</i></b></p><p><b><i>[ATTACH=full]812141[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]812143[/ATTACH] </i></b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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