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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Drusus, post: 1663533, member: 6370&quot;]This reminds me of something that happened just the other day. There several SCA minting groups and these people mint nice coins in the style (and using the same or similar techniques) used to make coinage of old. Some of these guys are very talented and put a lot of time, money and effort making these. Now most of them would never fool a collector with any experience and most are minted for fantasy kingdowms and countries.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well, a guy came to the list as he bought a lot of coins and he could not place one of the coins in the lot. When he bought the lot he thought it might be a hard to ID seige coin. In fact it was an SCA coin. One of the members commented something like-- thats the best thing that could happen is for someone to mistake their coins as the real deal.</p><p><br /></p><p>I thought they should catalog the coins they make so they are easier to find so people can research because some of these gentlemen make outstanding coins that look very much like real coinage of the middle ages and other eras (like Byzantine). I even offered them a place to catalog them but the post was censored. They probably thought I was selling webspace maybe? I was offering free space...</p><p><br /></p><p>Besides helping people not get fooled by their replicas, reproductions, or authentic looking fantasy coins, it would also be a place they could take credit for their work...Since then I have seen coins for sale as &#039;unknown type&#039; and recognized them as SCA coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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