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Offline mrbigb625

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Question of Authenticity, Alexander III Drachm
« on: July 06, 2018, 05:37:10 pm »
Hello,
I recently came across this Alexander Drachm. There are a few questionable quality about it. Such as the portrait seems small. Normally the portrait fills the entire obverse.
Also the edge appears to have a lot of what looks like folds. Not a casting seam, but more like when metal is poured.  

It is about 16.75 mm max
4.1 grams
And appears to be silver.

Any input would be appreciated.
Thank you

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Re: Question of Authenticity, Alexander III Drachm
« Reply #1 on: July 06, 2018, 05:44:29 pm »
Looks like and weighs in as a perfectly fine issue of Babylon to me.
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Re: Question of Authenticity, Alexander III Drachm
« Reply #2 on: July 07, 2018, 01:50:50 am »
The type is Price 3602, here you see some more examples: http://numismatics.org/pella/id/price.3602

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Re: Question of Authenticity, Alexander III Drachm
« Reply #3 on: July 07, 2018, 09:07:08 am »
Thank you for the reassurance. I was kind of "on the fence" with this one.
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