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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;maridvnvm, post: 2527591, member: 31620&quot;]Here isan example of a fake report I added to Forvm. This came from the IAPN Bulletin Of Counterfeits (BOC) Vol 13, No. 1 in 1988 and was used with permission of IAPN.</p><p><br /></p><p>I show it to illustrate how good some fakes are. It comes with the explanation as to why the experts deemed this example fake. </p><p><br /></p><p>I am not knowledgable enough on the series to have any educated comment whatsoever.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/albums/userpics/10618/BOC_1988_NCS_1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Fig 1 is the false coin - 17.27g</p><p>Fig 2 is genuine - ex &quot;Kunstfreund&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Struck from modern dies. The obverse die is too large and flat. Generally, the letters in the original are confidently, but lightly made; in the counterfeit die they are recut and have a thicker, less graceful, more regular appearance. Note the letter N; it is recut with the vertical strokes nearly the same length in the counterfeit; on the original the left stroke id only half as long as the right one. The head and neck of the bird have been touched up in the new die and have become slimmer in the process.</p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse incuse is deeper than on any of the published speciments of this die. The die break on the edge of the incuse below the crab which occurs on all these specimens has been tooled off in the counterfeit die.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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