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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 941579, member: 26302&quot;]Great topic Doug. I think it really shows people the various degrees of imitations. &quot;How do you know its not a fake?&quot; is the number one question I am always asked, and this helps bring many people up to speed that many times its ok its a fake.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Personally my dividing line has been time, anything made in ancient times, from an official mint or not, to me can be in my collection. Paduans, etc, while I somewhat like them, I do not collect. Modern copies I never have unless in a group of other stuff or I get deceived. That is just me though, and others have large collections of such pieces.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I think this exercise is pretty good since it shows collectors who have been around ancients a while CAN pick out the forgeries pretty quickly with just looks, even without resorting to guides. Not that there are not more convincing fakes out there. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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