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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dadams, post: 2744565, member: 82194&quot;]In art, a forgery by a well recognized forger would hold its own value, and there are numerous well know forgers, but did you know Michelangelo himself was guilty of such?&nbsp; His sculpture &quot;Sleeping Eros&quot; was intentionally aged to be passed off as a roman antiquity! Others I can think of off the top of my head would include The Spanish Forger, Elmyr de Hory, and van Meegeren.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m into books myself and more specifically, Literary Forgeries - I have more than 500 books on this subject, but very few of the actual forgeries because I cannot afford them.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of history&#039;s most successful literary forgers was Mark Hofmann who was guilty of forging early manuscript material related to the Mormon church, but he actually got his start in coins.&nbsp; You would never guess how excited I was when I found this at a local coin show:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.bibliopath.com/coins/boards/campbell__mormon-money-forgeries001.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Fourree&#039;s, Elctrotypes, Paduans, &amp;ct. all would seem collectible to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>My chances of owning any supreme great rarity of Ancient coinage is about 0%, but say the BM were to strike a high quality Eid Mar denarius, not some Bulgarian POS,&nbsp; then perhaps . . .[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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