Forgeries made to be sold to collectors
Such forgeries are often difficult to identify, even for experts.
Forgery Touch-up Work
Some forgers will use a variety of tools to remove signs of casting (mould seams, raised bumps due to casting bubbles, etc) to "touch up" their fakes and make them more difficult to spot.
Forgers forge not only coins but paperwork as well, sometimes comically.
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Other glomworthy coins: ...
Forgeries of Ancient Roman and Greek Coins
Photos of fakes of ancient coins offered for sale as authentic coins on eBay
Modern Forgeries Now Turning Up in Uncleaned Lots
Photos and diagnostics of fakes of very inexpensive Roman bronze coins ...
A Chinese forgery from the 1862 liberty seated dollar coin.
Slippery details are again the trademark from this 1862 counterfeit dollar.
Forgery - Fraudulent imitation of a US coin or currency aimed at collector or dealers.
Four-dollar gold piece - An experimental issue, also known as a Stella, struck in 1879-1880 as a pattern coin.
FR - Acronym for Fair.
Forgery
Fraudulent imitation. Not a genuine US Mint coin.
Fractional Coin
1) Spanish small silver coins reckoned in halves, quarters, eighths and sixteenths of a dollar which were LEGAL TENDER in the United States until 1857.
2) Federal ...
Forgery
An imitation of a numismatic item intended to deceive and/or defraud. See the separate article.
Frosting ...
Forgery - A copy of a coin or note made to deceive when exchanged for goods or services. In the old days you were hanged for just possessing a counterfeit, later convicted culprits were transported to Australia. See also Contemporary Forgery.
FORGERY
Any false coin, produced for whatever purpose, is a forgery. Forgery is also the act of making false coins.
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"Forgery" in sterling silver
Several of these have been offered for sale recently (1999-2001) at prices ranging up to $100. They are obviously not intended to fool collectors.
Modern Forgeries of Ancient Coins - Caveat Emptor
Yes, there are rip-off artists out there. This page is dedicated to the identification of modern counterfeits (as opposed to the ancient version of counterfeits = fourees).
Modern Forgeries
"PROB" fake on ancient (?) Claudius sestertius
"TYP" on Claudius As (either a local countermark, or could be a modern forgery according to an expert) ...
FORGERY
Theodora, AV Histamenon Nomisma, 1055-1056, Constantinople
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Christ standing facing on footstool, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium and colobium, book of Gospels in booth hands, all in double border
+ QEODwRA-AUGOUCTA ...
Forgeries
In the preceding paragraphs the production of a coin has been followed from its beginning as an artist's model until it lies in a bag awaiting distribution.
Forgery is the process of making or adapting documents with the intention to deceive. It is a form of fraud, and is often a key technique in the execution of identity theft.
Forgery can be associated with the making of an illegal profit. It would be the main objective of the counterfeiting syndicate.
Some forgeries are plated metal of poor quality, but others are made of brass. These can sometimes be identified by a slight difference in colour to the normal.
Contemporary Forgery - A forgery of a coin intended to fool the public at the time the coin was in circulation.
Forgeries of English copper coins of King George III, made in Canada, they got the name after a blacksmith who started to make them for own profit.
Blanc
Name for silver coins from the 14th to 16th century with a high silver value.
A method used by forgers to create a mint mark on a coin by heating the surface and manipulating the metal to form the mint mark.
choice
A term to describe an especially attractive example of a particular grade.
A method used by forgers to create a mint mark on a coin. It involves heating the surfaces and moving the metal to form the mint mark.
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There are also some forgeries for sale on Internet auction sites. Again, you must know the reputation and experience of the person you are buying from.
Many die cutters of modern originally engraved forgeries of Mass Owls portray the helmet crest as a continuous fan of horse hairs, with no break.
322 G, 282 R, 53 Byz, 3 DA, 8 Turkoman, 318 Becker forgeries.
Becker forgeries (fakes) (318)
31 (4/85) 501 ancients among 2630. 239 G, 173 R, 6 DA, 27 Byz, 19 Arabic, 8 Roman sestertii fakes
32 (11/85) 374 ancients among 2350.
They are not generally regarded as forgeries since they were smaller than standard issues and probably functioned as small change.
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AUTHENTICITY RISKS: Forgery and counterfeiting are risks associated with the purchase of any type of collectable.
In 1897, Sudan used Egyptian stamps, though there were numerous forgeries.
Kitchener looked for a means to print stamps that were specific to Sudan. An artist proposed an illustration of the Abu Simbel temples for 25 guineas.
These bore a copper plug at their centers to foil forgers but to no avail; James II and William III continued to strike similar pieces until 1693 when copper alone was used again.
If you wish to have your item authenticated to determine if it is a hitherto unknown original, a nineteenth century forgery or a modern reproduction of a 19th century forgery, see the recommended services in the following paragraph.
An old theory of the Indian public was that these dots indicated forgeries. Others suggest that mint workers applied the dots with broken nails! As a collector I consider them a fascinating field for collecting.
For example, a friend of mine sold a great deal of material that he bought directly from a forger. The forger went to jail, and wasn't able to pay financially for his crime.
Classical Deception: Counterfeits, Forgeries and Reproductions of Ancient Coins, Wayne Sayles. This volume takes a candid look at the falsifying of ancient coins.
Dangerous forgeries surfaced in 1984 of the 1864 dated restrike. These pieces allegedly originated in England and differ from genuine coins, as the digits of the date are thinner and placed higher in the field, ...
Fakes of modern and ancient coins sold on eBay as authentic coins are a frequent problem, though if you follow the online coin discussion groups, these coin forgeries are frequently exposed.
The most widely publicized forgeries are the small silvers of Apollonia Ponitika that were made in modern Bulgaria and are associated with a craftsman named "Slavey." Most interesting is that these phony coins fooled the dealers twice in ten years.
Beware there are many forgeries around mimicking this wave often derived from some sort of heat treatment of the metal. A genuine wavy 20 has a gentle curve that is paralleled in the water swirl directly above.
Chasing
A method used by forgers to create a mintmark on a coin. Chasing involves heating the surfaces and moving the metal to form a mintmark.
The pages that link to 'PADUAN':
1. The Gentle Art of Forgery
'PADUAN' contains links to:
1. Barbarus Numus
2. Forgeries
3. Numus ...
He's also written a few books about Numismatic Forgery and making coins in general and it looks to be a fascinating look at how early coins were made.
1832 Capital punishment for forging banknotes abolished in Britain
The maximum penalty for forgery is reduced from death to transportation for life (e.g. exile to Australia).
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2 The specimen figured, Z. f. N., xxi. Pl. I. 14, is a modern forgery, as well as the one in Journ. int. d'arch., 1898, Pl. VI. 18 (see preceding note).
The current market is overrun with fakes of ancient Chinese knife, spade, cash, and related cast bronze objects. Since about 1985 forgers in the PRC have developed new techniques in the service of faking bronze vessels and other antiquities of ...
B8 Hendin, David. Not Kosher, Forgeries of Ancient Jewish & Biblical Coins $50
B9 Meshorer, Y. SNG-ANS Part 6 Palestine-South Arabia. 1981. Reduced! $50
B10 Meshorer, Y. Testimoney. An introduction to coins in the Holy Land $25 ...
Hussey's Special Message Post: Located at 50 William Street, during the war, this outfit issued items of interest to philatelists, so much so that J.W. Scott made forgeries of them.
It is possible easy to distinguish the genuine coin and the fake: the genuine (Riga) coins have lion's head, but the fakes (Dubrovnik) have branch of tree in the gates on reverse of coin. Sweden also minted forgeries of Riga schillings just after ...
Half-groats, pence, and halfpence, are not noted in the table because they are without date or MM. Of the year 1655 there is a half-crown in the Br. Mus.; but it is plated, and manifestly a contemporaneous forgery.
It is interesting that the Sear catalog of Byzantine Coins specifically mentions the existence of gilded bronze contemporary forgeries of this type.
 See also: Coin, Silver, Revers, Reverse, Struck
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