Designed to save collectors money and frustration, this guide takes an objective and candid look at the history of falsifying ancient coins, tracing the careers of well-known forgers and discussing the most prolific fakes in existence. Topics include manufacturing techniques and detection methods.
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Designed to save collectors money and frustration, this guide takes an objective and candid look at the history of falsifying ancient coins, tracing the careers of well-known forgers and discussing the most prolific fakes in existence. Topics include manufacturing techniques and detection methods.
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Fine in fine jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. ix+ 196 pp. with index. Profusely illustrated with photographic examples. Collectors of ancient coins will find here an unprecedented accumulation of priceless information on the oft-ignored topis of numismatic fraud. The author shers three decades of experince and research on fakes and reproductions, discusses how these spurious coins were manufactuered, and profiles some of history's greatest coin copiers and their tools and tecniques. Both obverse and reverse of over 400 examples of Rosa Reproductions are pictured.
