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Author Topic: Is my Ancient greek gold coin REAL?  (Read 344 times)

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Offline Matheus L

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Is my Ancient greek gold coin REAL?
« on: October 21, 2019, 08:24:12 pm »
I found this coin, i believe its a gold alexander the great coin. Someone can help me to tell its fake or real?
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Offline mdelvalle

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Re: Is my Ancient greek gold coin REAL?
« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2019, 08:52:18 pm »
I'm sorry, for me it's a bad fake.
An example of the fake coin reports gallery, so you can compare

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/displayimage.php?pos=-1543
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Offline Callimachus

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Re: Is my Ancient greek gold coin REAL?
« Reply #2 on: October 21, 2019, 09:18:39 pm »
A stater of Alexander will actually look like it is made of gold - like the one in this link:


   https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-103550

Your coin looks like it is perhaps made of silver. When it begins to tarnish, silver sometimes gets a gold colored sheen to it.



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