The amount of knowledge I've gained from you is immeasurable. Many thanks.

One of the best ways to detect a fake seller on eBay is to look at the other items he is selling. If they are selling a lot of single unique pieces they are more likely to be genuine. If they are selling a lot of the same looking pieces and they are likely fakes. Because it is very difficult to produce hundreds of different unique fakes while it is very easy to produce hundreds of simple fakes.

Chinese coins are the hardest fake coins to spot as the original coins are cast 😢

Yes, the key phrase is that, Leo: "too good to be true". Super well explained, and beautiful coins shown (I mean the real ones! 😅)

Thumb's up for another fine and helpful episode. I'm off to find your earlier one on the topic. Much as I always feel an odd sense of unease at seeing a lovely old coin anachronistically entombed in one of those grading service lucite sarcophagi, the fakes out there are getting SO good and becoming SO hard to detect, even with special equipment, that I hate to concur that I almost understand why it's quickly becoming necessary to certify them....especially with costlier ones.

Extremely useful guide for any beginner collector! Thank you very much for your videos

Sometimes it can be hard to tell the difference,between a grainy surface on a genuine coin, from the grainy or porous surface on a cast fake.

This is why I find hammer struck coins among the most interesting the way they deformed as the hammer hit the metal it always deforms it in someway that no modern machine does and how each coin is different

Thanks for making these!

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Often on eBay you will see too many amazingly preserved coins either being passed over, or if sold, an exact twin appearing in a future (often the very next) auction. Study the bidding history and avoid coins that are pictured poorly, ie blurred.

Take a close up picture of a real coin and the fake using a camera phone and flash. Zoom in,and you will see the cast coin looks like the surface of the moon compared to the struck coin

It's sad that there are few ancient coin collectors in my country and there is little data. Thank you for the useful information!

Thank you so much for this. I've been thinking about branching out into ancient coin collecting and this is great info!

Very instructive and interesting, bravo !

Very useful, thank you for your postings!

LOVE YOUR VIDEO SIR . VERY EDUCATIONAL. THANK YOU .

Thanks so much, Leo. As always, super interesting and useful. Perhaps you could consider making a video on the third century 'barbarous radiates' in the near future.

Cast fakes aren't the problem. It's the struck coins made with fake dies which have ethier been milled or edm'd which are the really tricky ones to tell. Almost impossible to tell if they're gold coins.

Couple more things now I've watched the whole video. Cast fakes made with lossless wax casting won't have edge casting seems although may have a mark where the wax spru is joined. With lossless wax casting the plaster is put into a vacuum chamber to minimise bubbles and when the gold or silver is added a jewelers/dentists centrifuge is used in order to completely fill the mould. More modern advances in 3d resin printing means you can now cast in wax for lossless casting and with some relatively simple maths the size and volume can be modified to take into account the shrinkage in casting this can all be done in the 3d modelling software. These fakes won't fool the Harland J Burke's of the world but they will fool experienced collectors who aren't aware of modern technology. Also you can "cast" dies as well which although is expensive (usually you want to do it in 12k-14k gold -but saying that you can always melt down your dies afterwards. Numismatic forgery by Charles m Larsen is a fantastic book but it could do with an update with modern techniques.

There are so many fakes on Ebay. And Ebay does NOTHING about them, even when the seller says they're authentic.

Thank you very much for your information. I came to your site for my Kushan Indian gold coin and Bactrian Greco-Roman Gold coins. Easy to detect the fake!

Thank You for the Great Info!

Thanks! It looks as I have not been fooled! Yet…

Thank you so much! Fairly new and fakes are one thing I am concerned about, especially coins that look like they could be worth something...

It ŵould be amazing if you could also make a video analyzing flan or struck forgeries with artificial patinas and weathering. To me, they are the most dangerous kind...

Love your channel!!! Do you by chance give private lessons on coin collecting?

The info is gold! Silver and bronze too!

Thanks Leo most useful.

Can you do a video on how to tell apart struck fakes?

Thank you so much! Although, I wish I would have seen this before I bought five coins on eBay. After I received them, I'm going to take them to my local coin place so they can do some metal testing on them to see if any of them are actually real.

Very good video! Please make more videos on this topic

Anyone have suggestions for reputable parthian coin dealers?

I found a reputable dealer on ebay, I've found gold ones and electrum....had them checked.....I ONLY buy from him....

Very nice thank you!

Excellent! Thank you.

Great content like always

Please make more videos about fake coins and fake precious metals. Like how much do they actually make per coin at each quality level? How many fakes are made a year and are entering the inventories of dealers? What are high value fakes that have sold for big monies? Please more like this. Thank you and have a good one

THANK YOU!!!!!

Great video!

Thank you for the video my friend… I’m hoping you can point me to a reputable website for an Alexander the Great drachm

Thanks for posting this document. l have a Thasos Tetradracm , a very beautiful coin, yet a cast fake l´m sure, more and more now. Well, c` est la vie..

Where does they make the fake ones from what material? I have a Denarius Augustus and it’s real silver I’ve tested so I should be fine?

Thanks for the informative video, is it so hard to make fake struck coins? If so can you please explain why?

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Anyone know where i can buy coins for kaiser wilhelm or for any czar

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It's kind of interesting to me that cast coins are a common way to fake a coin. Historically they struck the coins because it was cheap. If the goal was perfection they would have removed the flashing, and struck the coins dead center. remelting any with tears/defects. Counterfeiting wasn't even a real worry (so long as the coin was made of the right purity of gold/silver). It honestly seems worlds easier to me to make a coin the historical way than to try and cast it.

Aka vasilios kosman here Use to collect USA native American items historic My mentor told me there was same problem w indian peace metals cast fakes He said way to tell diff was put a magnifying Glass on the letters Strike the corners edges of letters are ninety degree corner's On cast they come put rounded Don't know if this apply to acients?

Were can I get an other othentic Greek coin?

Did you ever get a coin from an auction that was fake?

I accidentally bid on a fake the other day. It wasnt a scam or anything, just they said the time period it was from so I assumed it was real but further down they mentioned it was a "modern collectable item". Always read it all before bidding because I won and couldnt back out of paying for it! Its a septimus severus with his wife on one side and caracalla on the other by the way.

Is there any way I could send you a link to a coin currently for auction or get your opinion on a specific ebay seller? I've seen the other videos on fakes, and you are by far the best resource I can think of to check to give an opinion

I dont buy ancient coins from any seller with less than 500 transactions and 100% positive feedback. Ebay accounts with only a few transactions have little to lose and could vanish overnight.

will laser sintered coins become an issue with detecting counterfits? especially now that 3d scanners are getting more detailed than their silicone counterparts?

just melt the fake

You sound brazilian, am I right?

See now what I want are high quality modern struck recreations

i usually find a real coin on the internet and then i compare it with the one that i want. if the details match up i will buy it.

But what if I don’t want a genuine ancient coin, rather, just something that looks pretty in coin form?

11:16 flattened?

Id love to have a serious discussion with you about the coins were really made.

But bothering me most are those fake coins that were actually struck, please make another epsode to explain how to spot those fake coins produced using ancient method with real pure silver and gold.

8:31 Eastern Roman*

Cold pressed step bro!

The chinese maintain art works over hundreds of years in a process of continuous restauration with skills that match the original creators. It is a different mind set, compared to a Western view that the original Nachtwacht or Mona Lisa are sacred.

Vorrei che parlasse in italiano

Id say this is why you do not get into this.

Third one real

Roaming coins Or you could call them roman coins Have time dilation wrong was built in a day but not an earth day so all the coins are stained with time dilation so Rome was both my day so it's coins everything day but then maybe the coins are about 3 years each make some more.

My mom use essential oil and all of them are cold pressed.

Technically the 3rd coin in real just a dark story so don't call them fake it's called mastering a time line makes it one of a kind your welcome.