Kingdom of Macedon, Philip II AV stater

[majorcvs]

I bought this Philip II stater at a local coin auction for pennies on the dollar. Sure would like some opinions and evaluations.

This coin concludes my small ancient coin collection. EZ

[majorcvs]

Weight: 3.8gm, 17mm

[Lloyd Taylor]

Cast fake. Casting diagnostics clearly in evidence and authentic examples were struck at 8.60 gm weight standard with very exacting attention to weight.

Here are a couple of authentic examples, which it seeks to imitate (actually Philip III rather than II as the tread is titled):
http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=413408
http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=379041

and a die match cast from the Forum Fakes Database
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/displayimage.php?pos=-10201

P.S. Did you get your Roman Philip I antoninianus, the subject of the thread https://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=77001.0  from the same source ? I am pretty sure it is a fake also, notwithstanding the failure of the Roman experts to make any comment on the authenticity issue I flagged. You've been pretty unlucky with your collecting thus far.

[majorcvs]

Well Lloyd, I weighed this coin again and make a correction. It weighs 6.0 gm at 17mm which is still below the standard of 8.5 - 8.6 gm. That's OK by me if it's a fake because I paid very little for it. I bought this coin as well as the other 3 Byzantine gold coins (which are listed) at the same auction less than 2 weeks ago. I've not been told they are fakes but I'm waiting for you to tell me that they are however, lol. The Philip I you mention was purchased by me 5 years ago on eBay as stated in the comments of my listing.

Still, more than 3/4 of all the coins I listed are authentic so I wouldn't say I've 'been pretty unlucky so far' if I were you. I'm content for having made purchases with absolutely no knowledge of ancient coins. EZ

[David M3]

I don't know if I would say buying Romans is easy it takes some reseach on them before you buy on Ebay. And like I said in this forum before I only deal with 3 sellers out of all of them. Because I trust them. And for luck your batting average is not looking to good on your gold coins most likely modern cast fakes.

[majorcvs]

Perhaps so but like the Owner/President says: "If you don't know enough to give advice, why not just listen instead?