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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 2659963, member: 82322&quot;]I have personally inspected over 100 Apollonia Pontika drachms similar to icerain&#039;s.&nbsp; No one has accused them of being fake.&nbsp; They all look good.&nbsp; I am somewhat concerned that I have never seen an example on the market that wasn&#039;t heavily cleaned.&nbsp; Because of the cleaning most of my tricks to identify genuine and counterfeit coins do not apply.</p><p><br /></p><p>Because Apollonia Pontika coins are heavily counterfeited it is difficult to know what to do. I have gotten it wrong before.&nbsp; For example, I became convinced that a particular die was fake because it was in the wrong style and all examples I could locate appeared on the market at about the same time.&nbsp; I removed my example of that die from my web page.&nbsp; Yet after I began a die study I concluded that a specimen in the British Museum in the 19th century was from the same die.&nbsp; Moral: There are a lot of genuine coins of Apollonia Pontika that look fake too.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]589898[/ATTACH]</p><p>(Hopefully the above image is animated for you).</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin looks silly.&nbsp; There are dots all over the place that don&#039;t normally occur on the type, including blunders on the tongue.&nbsp; The die is frequently re-engraved.&nbsp; The style is not right.&nbsp; Yet the most warn example was published in <i>SNG British Museum: Black Sea</i>!</p><p><br /></p><p>I am not convinced all of these are real, but if counterfeit they are so deceptive as to be beyond my power.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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