FAMOUS FORGERY.
FAKE ARABIC MEDALS. SPECIMEN IN AUCKLAND. 1 A largo lead medal, inscribed with Arabic characters, worn, and apparently of great age, was brought to tlio Heiiali) office yesterday by Mr. L. C. Brabant, of 52, Mount All Tt Road, Royal medal is a clever forgery, and a good specimen of the notorious counterfeit curios known as "Billies and Charleys." During excavations in Iho making of tlio Thames Embankment, London,.many years ago, two ingenious rogues, who were really men of education and ability, thought of a schcmo by which they might make some money. They mado somo counterfeit "medals of a medieval style, which boro the date of 1320 A.D., and placed them where they were likely to be found. These were conveniently discovered in lire sight of bystanders, who were misled into buying them as valuable medioval medals.
Mr. Brabant, who has had one of these medals in his possession for many years, recently sent a nabbing to tlio British Museum. Tho reply states: —"Tho medal is a forgery. It is a made-up piece professing to bo medieval. There aro many impossible features about it, notably tho dato in Arabic numerals, which wcro not known in Europe at that time."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21239, 20 July 1932, Page 12
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