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Author Topic: Silver Saxon penny of Anlaf Guthfrithsson  (Read 11526 times)
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« Reply #15 on: August 06, 2015, 11:33:22 PM »

Interestingly enough I saw that Spink recently sold one for £11k - this was different from this one.

Peter - I think that the first letter of Pablo's coin has a 'TH' - the D with a line through it. Most of the coins I've seen have also had Moniter or Monet, rather than just Mone at the end. I also don't like the punch used for the obverse cross (raven side) or the wedges used on the reverse - the obverse one looks like it was meant to be made from 4 wedges and then punched separately onto the die - whilst that isn't necessarily indicative of a wrong un, none of the ones I have found so far (and indeed I can remember that on any of the other anglo saxon / Danish type coins that I've seen) have it.

The other thing is to do with style - it's been said in other places that to truly make an anglo saxon / Danish / Viking coin you have to be anglo saxon / Danish / Viking - immersed in the culture with no other influences - sadly we live in our age and anyone trying to copy an earlier artefact will almost always show some trace of their time in whatever they are doing - it's hard to pin down, but this one almost looks as if it is trying a bit too hard - but of course that's only my opinion.
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« Reply #16 on: August 07, 2015, 09:54:25 AM »

it's possible that this coin is forgery, but why someone used uknown moneyer name? or why it's triple striked? and why there are no other simillar coins out there? if it's a copy coin than there should be at least few known examples.
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« Reply #17 on: August 07, 2015, 07:15:43 PM »

it's possible that this coin is forgery, but why someone used uknown moneyer name? or why it's triple striked? and why there are no other simillar coins out there? if it's a copy coin than there should be at least few known examples.

Quite a lot of hand struck forgeries are 'unique' - and given what you paid for the coin, I'm sure even striking one would more than pay for the effort to create it.

Sometimes forgers use techniques such as bad multiple strikes so that people say - 'this can't be a forgery, they would want to make it perfect' - but there's probably a greater number of people who would jump at the chance of a coin that should be >£10k for £600 than a collector willing to shell out £10k+ (although there are plenty of forgeries at that level too).

I'm not saying that yours is of course, just pointing out why fakes are often unique, not struck well - and of course by making up the name of a moneyer there are no other examples to compare the style to - and any little differences can be put down to the 'unique' styling of the otherwise unknown moneyer.
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