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Show Con aterfelt Coins. Within the lust few years numbers of forgeries of extremely rare coins in the British rnasc-uiu and in private collec tions have been sold by auction vs London. Lon-don. So good ia their execution that it seemt probable that means have bien devised for vs&ttg etiiel dies on plastor casts or of hardening electrotype dieiv The manufacture of rare "si?go pieces, ' carried cn in one of our midland towns, shows a far lower amount of skill. WheD -eiuixie but defaced coins are nsstruck with new impressions, it is very" difScIt to discover the fraud. Some genuine ancient coins are surf rappees rap-pees in thit manner as, for instance; a whole class of Jewish coins 4rhich are struck on Roman silver denarii. But when the ima;;e tnd superscription of William III can be discerned underlying' underly-ing' the device on a rare crown p)ece of Elizabeth the question of its authenticity authentic-ity is soon solved. Longman's Maga-zine. |