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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Al Kowsky, post: 8024858, member: 97383&quot;]ominus, Congrats on scoring reprints of these important reference books by Hill <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie50" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. Sometime next year I&#039;ll try &amp; get copies of these books through an inter-library loan because I&#039;ve always wanted to read them <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. Carl Wilhelm Becker, 1722-1830, was the greatest forger in the history of numismatics <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. His forgeries &amp; phantasies fooled museum curators &amp; many &quot;experts&quot; for decades <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. Pictured below is a Becker forgery in my collection that would fool many dealers &amp; collectors today <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie85" alt=":smuggrin:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1390862[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1390863[/ATTACH] </p><p>Pictured below for comparison is a genuine example of this coin type.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1390867[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The coin pictured below is the most expensive Becker forgery, to my knowledge, ever sold at auction. With a $200.00 estimated the coin sold for <b>$2,875.00 <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie57" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />!</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]1390865[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><b>GREEK, Sicily-Naxos, circa 430-415 BC. AR Tetradrachm: 13.28 gm, 24 mm, 12 h. Obverse: Dionysos wearing a tainia decorated with an ivy branch. Reverse: Silenos (the drinking buddy of Dionysos) holding up a kantharos. In the fields are ivy &amp; bunches of grapes. CNG 419, lot 606.</b></p><p><b></b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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