Paduan (coin)
Paduan is a term from numismatics . This is used to describe replicas and forgeries of ancient coins from the 16th century. These medal-like coins, which were mostly modeled on the sesterces of Roman emperors , got their name from the origin of a large part of these forgeries from the Italian city of Padua . Some pieces are only products of the imagination of their creators ( imaginary imprints ).
The die cutter Giovanni Cavino and the scholar Alessandro Bassiano created the most famous pieces. They argued that this was the way they wanted collectors to get hard-to-find collectibles. Today the real Paduans are well researched and the stamps as well as the types are well known. However, there is another group of fakes that are actually wrongly also called Paduans. These fakes from the 18th and 19th centuries are often replicas of the old Paduans or new creations. It is not uncommon for Paduans to be found unrecognized in many coin collections.
