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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 3163299, member: 87809&quot;]This is a very interesting thread! When does an imitation become a fake? </p><p>Once I asked a question about a coin in a different numismatic forum, and I immediately got an answer from a very knowledgable and helpful member saying it was a fake. However, I looked it up at the British Museum and there I found under the museum reference B.12967 (one can see it here:</p><p><a href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/search.aspx?museumno=B.12967" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/search.aspx?museumno=B.12967" rel="nofollow">http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/search.aspx?museumno=B.12967</a></p><p>the following description: </p><p>Copper alloy medal; Renaissance invention of a Roman coin type. </p><p>Obverse: Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Lucius Verus, right; </p><p>Reverse: Quadriga rushing left. School / style Paduan, Giovanni da Cavino, 16th century or later. </p><p>Curator&#039;s comments: There are no Roman coins of this type, but the reverse image is similar to those on Syracusan decadrachms. </p><p>Bibliography: Klawans 1977 2, p.99, Klawans 1977 5, p.96</p><p><br /></p><p>in this case the BM doesn&#039;t refer to it as a fake, but as an invention. </p><p><br /></p><p>I like my &quot;replica&quot; (or whatever one can call it) of the BM very much. It has a nice quadriga and a nice patina. Is it a fake? Well, I really don&#039;t care, I just like it <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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