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Show Counterfeit Coins. Within tbo L,st few years numbers of forgeries of extremely rare coins in the British mu-scuhi and in private collec-tionp collec-tionp have been scld by auction V3. London. Lon-don. So good in their v-xecntion thet it eeeine probable that means hare bin devised for rt?,tg sl.ei oies on plaster casts or of hardening elcttrotype diet The manufacture of rare'sngo pieces,'-carried pieces,'-carried on in one of our midland towns, shows j far lower amount of skill. WheD 'cu'i-ae but defaced coins are itrnck with nw impressions, it is very dif3rv;U toi discover the fraud. Some genuine ancient coins are surfrap-pecs surfrap-pecs in this manner as lor instance, n whole class of Jewish coins which are struck on Roman silver denarii. But when tiie ima;re ind superscription cf William 111 caa be discerned underlying underly-ing the device on a rare crown p.'eco of Elizabeth the question of its authenticity authentic-ity is Eoon solved. Longman's Magazine. |