Greece (ancient) - Campania, Cumae, silver hemidrachm ca 400
Are you interested in this item?This item is up for auction at Catawiki. Please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the Catawiki website. Catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available. Our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store. Rare 18th/19th century copy by one of the most famous counterfeiters in history, Carl Wilhelm Becker. Becker was born at Speyer on 28 June . His work was done entirely freehand; there was no mechanical copying, nor did he cast dies. The material of the dies was steel, embedded in soft iron. The metal for his coins was often melted down out of ancient copies. The striking was done with a sledge-hammer, in the ancient manner, not with a press. Becker’s total authenticated output comprised the dies for little under 340 different coins and medals. But there might be more...Silver, 5g, 11mm, Hill 1 Read more