2000 år gammel forfalsket mynt
april 13th, 2006 | Published in Kontanter
Italienske forskere har funnet en forfalsket mynt som er over 2000 år gammel:
“Giuseppe Giovannelli of the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ and his colleagues took a close look at what seemed to be a silver coin minted in southern Italy in the third century BC. It turned out to be a lump of lead with a thin silver coating.
This is not the first example of counterfeiting in the ancient world, but the researchers say that in this case the silver coating seems to have been created by a sophisticated chemical process.
“We are not yet aware of any other counterfeit coins like this one,” says Giovannelli.” Link. via Boing Boing