Do take a look at this site. Echoing Andrew's sentiments, these fakes ARE
dangerous. I had the misfortune to buy one about a month ago--it is a Nerva
denarius COS II DESIGN III PP. The weight is correct (maybe just a little
on the heavy side) at 3.44 g, and the specific gravity is correct at about
10, indicating good silver. The surfaces are not too bad, especially for a
coin in fine condition. And the edge is well done also--under magnification
there's just the slightest hint of a seam and what I can convince myself
might be file marks. Somebody went to a whole lot of trouble to make a
great fake of a coin that's worth $60. Beware.

Scott

On 2/19/06, postvmvsavg <postvmvsavg@...> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> I've created a website of cast fakes, the kind being sold by
> sellers such as 'empire_gallery', 'spes-pvblica', and
> 'imperatorial' among others.
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> Currently very rough, incomplete, more to follow:
> http://mriess.acm.jhu.edu/castfakes/
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> If you haven't heard about these before I recommend checking
> out a thread at the FORVM discussion board, where I first
> became aware of them:
> http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=24565.0
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> postvmvs
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