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Your welcome. If you need any advice on hammereds just pm me on here. Glad to help out. Stu.

Since that offering's from torcoins it's probably not even his own photo. I know what you mean though, especially with the proofs.

It is a nice coin but way out of my price range. I know you shouldn't put an uncirculated coin with lustre on your hand, its not the 1st time i,ve received a really nice coin with a thumb print. I,ve recently taken to taking pictures like this, to catch the right light and colour of the coin, but not with coins with lustre. Maybe thats his thinking.

I visited Belgium recently and was very pleased to see one of the 14 surviving copies of the 36-line Gutenberg Bible in the Museum Plantin Moretus. Printed in 1461. I was amazed by the quality of the printing and the print is still jet black today. The colours had to be added on by hand.

That's why i don't bother with Roman coins. It is a minefield agreed. I haven't encountered any fake hammered as such other than the pewter novelty replicas and they are easy to spot even without the copy or WRL stamps just by the way they look. That soapy look as they call it , i can spot them a mile off. Have a look at some here to familiarise yourself with them. I've even bought a few to get a proper look and feel for them then gave them my kids. http://www.museumreproductions.co.uk/shop/category.php Here is some links that may be of interest too you. Its also useful to look at some of the coins people list as fake on some forums. There is many documented on previous posts on predecimal. If you have your suspicions that a coin may be fake a simple google search using fake 1855 half crown as an example will pull up lots of results from forums showing images of such examples. Its hit and miss but you can search through most and pick out the useful ones. You find the weights and measurements of most coins online using Google. I find the PAS website useful for getting weights and sizes of hammered coins. Hope this helps. http://www.calgarycoin.com/reference/fakes/fakeswebsites.htm http://www.psdetecting.com/Forgeries-Page.html

That is certainly one of the fakes, although there are many that are better quality than that one. They all have the tell-tale cud on the serif of the N of TENTH on the reverse and the same digs in the field in front of Victoria's face on the obverse.

Only one I can think of (that isn't obvious to spot as fake) is the 1864 die number 64.