Trevor Ashmore is a coin counterfeiter infamous for producing modern copies of ancient English coins in the 1960s.
Ashmore was a part-time coin dealer in the late 1960s and early 1970s. As he was a precision engineer he also made experimental coin dies. In 1972 he set up the company 'Period Coins' in Sutton-in-Ashfield producing replica coins, selling mostly to numismatists in the United States. The business eventually failed but he remained in production of replica coins. After retirement in 1991 he began to produce forged coins commercially again.
Ashmore tended to concentrate on silver coins, which are especially dangerous to collectors since they are not hallmarked; 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.
Recently coins such as Edward I Farthing have emerged.
References
- Bob Forrest (Coin News, Oct 1995) From "Period Coins" to Ashmore Replicas, pp36-39
- 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
- Finn, P. Ashmore replicas - revisited. Spink Numismatic Circular, London 2000: issue 108, pp50-54
- Medieval English Hammered Farthings - Known Counterfeits http://hammered_farthings.tripod.com/counterfeit/index.htm
External links
- All Bulletin on Counterfeits coins are scanned and available at http://www.forgerynetwork.com/