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Unique ID: HESH-9D57D5
Object type certainty: Certain
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A modern forgery / reporduction of an iron age Cheriton Stater
Dr Philip de Jersey comments:
'This is ... a modern fake, an imitation of the Cheriton stater (Ancient British Coins 755) which first appeared some twenty years ago. There is a picture of one on p. 201 of Chris Rudd's ABC. They caused quite a problem in the early/mid 1990s, before we realised that every single one was struck from the same dies, and on the same die axis, and therefore they were presumably produced in some sort of hinged die. We never did get to the bottom of who was producing them, though it was somewhere down on the south coast, possibly Chichester. There was a genuine find of Cheriton staters c.1989 and it seems likely that someone saw an opportunity to make a bit more money and produced these, or got somebody else to produce them.
see forgery report here:
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/thumbnails.php?album=22&page=2
Obverse: Stylised face - small indistinct stamped R on bridge of nose
Reverse: standards
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MODERN
Date from: Circa AD 1980
Date to: Circa AD 2000
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 2.9 mm
Weight: 3.43 g
Diameter: 17.5 mm
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Other reference: SMS Entry Form: SHRMS: E.00073
Primary material: Other
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
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