A treatise of the revenue and false money of the Romans : to which is annexed, a dissertation upon The manner of distinguishing antique medals from counterfeit ones : translated from the original printed at Paris 1740.

Archaeopteryx, the primordial bird : a case of fossil forgery / Fred Hoyle & Chandra Wickramasinghe ; photographs by R.S. Watkins.

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A treatise of the revenue and false money of the Romans : to which is annexed, a dissertation upon The manner of distinguishing antique medals from counterfeit ones : translated from the original printed at Paris 1740.

Archaeopteryx, the primordial bird : a case of fossil forgery / Fred Hoyle & Chandra Wickramasinghe ; photographs by R.S. Watkins.