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Erik M2

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please help i have search my eyes off for this coin
« on: September 11, 2020, 04:26:05 am »

 it measures 27 mm in diameter and weighs around 14 gram

 it has a bronze / brass / goldish appearance

 The coin was in a batch with others from Ptolemy / Alexander III era (330 B.C.)

 There was a little bit of recognition in the following coin i found online:
 Parthia Gold Stater Mithridates VI 120-63 BC Tomis Mint HA 
 Diademed Head of Alexander the Great facing right on this coin (is looking a bit similar)
 rev Athena (i cant seem to find coins with just 2 heads on it)

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Erik
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Re: please help i have search my eyes off for this coin
« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2020, 04:34:47 am »
Hi Erik,

welcome here
i think this is a modern forgery

soft looks
patina
the whole.....
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Re: please help i have search my eyes off for this coin
« Reply #2 on: September 11, 2020, 04:37:11 am »
 thanks, just curious: which coin should it resemble?
 or is it just a fantasy design
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Re: please help i have search my eyes off for this coin
« Reply #3 on: September 11, 2020, 04:38:14 am »
this type is not my specialty, others will know, i am sure the will react
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« Reply #4 on: September 11, 2020, 04:39:19 am »
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Re: please help i have search my eyes off for this coin
« Reply #5 on: September 13, 2020, 11:09:40 am »
Modern cast fantasy copying an obverse of an Athenian tetradrachm and the obverse of a tetradrachm of Alexander III.  Certainly not ancient.
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