Trevor Ashmore

Trevor Ashmore was infamous for producing modern copies of ancient English coins in the 1960s.

In 1972 he set up the company 'Period Coins' [Bob Forrest (Coin News, Oct 1995) From "Period Coins" to Ashmore Replicas, pp36-39] producing replica coins, selling mostly to numismatists in the United States. The business eventually failed but he remained in production of replica coins until the early 1990s.

Ashmore tended to concentrate on silver coins, which are especially dangerous to collectors since they are not hallmarked; [Hurter, S. Ashmore replicas, part I. Bulletin on Counterfeits, London 1995/6: vol 20 no 2, pp19-28] [Hurter, S. Ashmore replicas, part III. Bulletin on Counterfeits, London 1999: vol 24 no 1, pp21-23] his coins have appeared in the IBSCC's Bulletin on Counterfeits as well as Spink's Numismatic Circular, April 2000, pp.50-54, coin no. 16. [Finn, P. Ashmore replicas - revisited. Spink Numismatic Circular, London 2000: issue 108, pp50-54]

Recently coins such as Edward I Farthing [ Medieval English Hammered Farthings - Known Counterfeits http://hammered_farthings.tripod.com/counterfeit/index.htm ] have emerged.

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