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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 7382008, member: 19463"]Antiquanova has a large catalog of replicas openly sold as what they are for fair prices if you want a replica. Most are available in decent silver marked with a fancy S stamp or (for a much lower price) pot metal/tin that is silver in color that is not marked. The one shown here may be a silver one with the S removed/filled but I suspect it is the pot metal variety which is €8.00 as opposed to €59.00 for the silver one. How many people these days can tell tin from silver? A generation ago, most people could not be fooled by this but today we see many people who eat with stainless steel and have never really experienced silver (or gold judging from the number of posts here by people who thing brass is gold). Their replicas are die struck and vary a bit in terms of centering so you can buy half a dozen and 'prove' they are not cast fakes. Style on their products are not correct but their target market is not people who would see the difference and some are a great deal better than others. In general, the better you know the real thing, the more ridiculous their coins are to your eyes. I consider their Roman replicas ugly and not in the least dangerous but could be fooled by some of the Greek/Celtic/Biblical/Medieval offerings that are not as familiar to me. Someone here made a cabinet with door pulls that look like EID MAR denarii. I find that to be a wonderful use for these items. If you referee sports and want a 'special' flipping coin, consider an €18.00 tin dekadrachm of Syracuse. Certainly the problem of people ignorantly or fraudulently reselling the replicas as genuine is real. We waste a lot of breath here telling people to buy from trustworthy sources and that things too good to be true usually are false. Many of us have been accused of trying to steal grandpa's treasure when we tell someone that the item is fake. The number of drive by requests for information about coins of imagined authenticity in the ~12 years I have been here is a bit scary. Here is one fact: If you feel that an item that has a 10% chance of being real is worth 10% of the 'real' price, you flunked math. </p><p><br /></p><p>Exactly! As it is, the coin would make a great drawer pull.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 7382008, member: 19463"]Antiquanova has a large catalog of replicas openly sold as what they are for fair prices if you want a replica. Most are available in decent silver marked with a fancy S stamp or (for a much lower price) pot metal/tin that is silver in color that is not marked. The one shown here may be a silver one with the S removed/filled but I suspect it is the pot metal variety which is €8.00 as opposed to €59.00 for the silver one. How many people these days can tell tin from silver? A generation ago, most people could not be fooled by this but today we see many people who eat with stainless steel and have never really experienced silver (or gold judging from the number of posts here by people who thing brass is gold). Their replicas are die struck and vary a bit in terms of centering so you can buy half a dozen and 'prove' they are not cast fakes. Style on their products are not correct but their target market is not people who would see the difference and some are a great deal better than others. In general, the better you know the real thing, the more ridiculous their coins are to your eyes. I consider their Roman replicas ugly and not in the least dangerous but could be fooled by some of the Greek/Celtic/Biblical/Medieval offerings that are not as familiar to me. Someone here made a cabinet with door pulls that look like EID MAR denarii. I find that to be a wonderful use for these items. If you referee sports and want a 'special' flipping coin, consider an €18.00 tin dekadrachm of Syracuse. Certainly the problem of people ignorantly or fraudulently reselling the replicas as genuine is real. We waste a lot of breath here telling people to buy from trustworthy sources and that things too good to be true usually are false. Many of us have been accused of trying to steal grandpa's treasure when we tell someone that the item is fake. The number of drive by requests for information about coins of imagined authenticity in the ~12 years I have been here is a bit scary. Here is one fact: If you feel that an item that has a 10% chance of being real is worth 10% of the 'real' price, you flunked math. Exactly! As it is, the coin would make a great drawer pull.[/QUOTE]
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