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Offline Fernando B

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Egypt theater tokens
« on: April 25, 2018, 08:33:35 am »
Hi everyone,

the tokens in the pictures below were classified as "Roman Rgypt theater tokens" and on sale online.
Do you think they are genuine and - if so - is there any reference where similar ones can be found?

Many thanks,

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Offline Pekka K

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Re: Egypt theater tokens
« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2018, 09:02:56 am »

Offline Fernando B

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Re: Egypt theater tokens
« Reply #2 on: April 25, 2018, 11:44:43 am »
Thanks for the quick feedback,

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Re: Egypt theater tokens
« Reply #3 on: October 15, 2019, 06:56:16 pm »
I was once shown a whole bucketful (literally!) of these fakes by a dealer in Britain, who was offering them as genuine.
Actually, the genuine ones are not terribly rare, and were not theatre tokens but clay seals (bullae) used to seal legal documents, parcels, food and drinking jars, boxes, shops, goods subject to customs duties, and so on.                   
Many come from Mesopotamia and Northern Syria/Commagene, especially Zeugma and Doliche. The Gaziantep Museum alone has over 140,000 "clay seal impressions" from Zeugma.

 

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