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Started by chris, March 31, 2015, 12:49:23 PM

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following another Legatus forgery

the first "Legatus" fake from ancient_numismatics you might enjoy here: 

http://ancientartifakes.net/smf/index.php/topic,1100.30.html

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Let us state the obvious difference between a copy and a fake on the market – when a buyer knows an object is a copy – it is a copy, when resold as an authentic object – it is a fake.


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compare surface and damages of the rings with those of ancient_numismatics. All from the same workshop

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next legionary fake...............same surface, same damages, same scratches inside hoop, even that earth deposit equal to all gold fakes from the Balkan region and as always, engraving like "new" Oh, I forgot, of course, from a Legatus.

There are increasing opportunities ........ as yet are missing the rings of Roman rulers. Of course, exclusively from the Serbian fake Mafia

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This globally operating fake seller must feel very safe and invulnerable. For the Augustus silver / gold forgery (ancient_numismatics) practically the front side of the same coin as for the Minerva counterfeit was cast.

Beautiful gold ring - but also real? Or was here copied skillfully a similar silver ring, which was sold some time ago. Very improbable, that suddenly a nearly identical cameo was found in a similar ring (this time of gold). And if this ring also comes still from the fake triangle in Eastern Europe, caution is advised.


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We lost many articles, pictures and comments by the collapse of our forum. But the fake sellers are hard-working, fast money is a strong motivation and also completely risk-free thanks to ebay's business policy.

A positive side effect, when one sees the fake yield juxtaposed, one gets only an idea about the enormous quantity brought on the market thanks ebay.

Let's begin with the "fake of the month" an eid mar silver ring. ....and finish with same ring, the buyer tries now the second time to resell.

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Impressive gold ring.... what an unique ancient heritage for sale on ebay.

As always without export licence delivered directly from the Serbian excavation site to the interested collector. The Serbian customs certainly expresses a blind eye.

Or should this piece of Constantine's son be a fake? Then, of course, an export licence is not needed.

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The Serbian group now sells an average of more than 10 fakes / weekly on ebay. The spiced up bronze rings not included.

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The latest trend from Serbia. Almost every ring is now a legion ring. Inhibitions? ...No. Meanwhile, no fake collector knows how genuine rings look like.

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The Serbian headquarter (counterfeiting workshop) now distributes bulks of silver, gold, and bronze fakes over middlemen from the USA and the UK. The Serbian fakes are about to conquer the eBay market. I believe that hardly a buyer knows what a genuine ring looks like. This absurd bargain-hunting destroys the market for really genuine artifacts and fills the pockets of the fake seller.

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Soon no collector of antique jewelery will know how real genuine items look. Since years the Serbs and Bulgarians have flooded the market with fakes, so that the counterfeits are regarded as genuine by ebay buyers.

"O dear look what a nice Roman ring I bought on ebay. It was a real bargain - cheaper than a modern thing from today" So or similar could be the conversation between ebay-fake-collectors.

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Whence the ever-changing engravings come, I can explain. The forger copy from coins. And of these there are really enough :-)

The remaining rest they find in auctions catalogues, from other ebay-sellers or museums.

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In the past week, the Serbian team of five has focused on the Roman genitals. Each member of this group offered at least one corresponding item.

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As to the spintria:

There are experts who know exactly what the function of these objects was: they were bought at the brothel's entrance. The representations had to be regarded as a kind of catalogue of pleasures on offer in that particular brothel. After choosing a position one went into the chamber whose number the token's reverse stated and the beauties - which mostly came from exotic countries - were instantly informed about their customers' desire.

Excerpt from http://www.coinsweekly.com/en/Archive/8?&id=9&type=a
We, too, know objects whose representation can vary but whose value remain the same. I am referring to playing cards. The spintriae may well have had a similar function - as tokens in a game whose rules are unknown to us.
In early Imperial Rome, the act wasn't declared a taboo. Although Augustus went to great lengths to restore the old customs of the forefathers, he failed - even in his own family. Hence, these images were part of everyday life, also suitable to decorate objects of utility such as tokens of a game, the wall of a villa or oil lamps. Private companies manufactured these tokens and distributed them - as they later did with the contorniates.
And the moral of the story is? Nothing is as dirty as what the viewer's dirty imagination turns it into.


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the next fauxpas of a fake sellers with zero clue.

Forger seems to have engraved the inscription incorrectly. Correct "Victrix". I could not find anywhere that Victrix suddenly became Vitrix. Note anyway no fake-collector

http://roman-britain.co.uk/military/leg6victrix.htm