The crystalline structure of two coins, one is authentic and
the other a reproduction.
In the later part of 2003, Reid Goldsborough was wondering if there may be a
difference in the structure of an authentic ancient silver coin and
a
modern forgery. I volunteered to take the images if I had the coins to
photograph. Mark Lehman volunteered a broken Julia Paula AR Denarius,
and Reid had modern cast forgery of Parion archaic hemidrachm. I broke the
Forged coin myself.
The images were
taken with a Toshiba PDR-M71 digital camera though a stereo microscope at 10X
and 30X magnification.
Click on an image for a full
resolution image.
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A full shot of the Denarius |
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A full shot of the forgery |
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