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tomfurt

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Help with Axum coin #2: silver, 2 busts, crescent moon
« on: October 12, 2014, 08:48:54 pm »
This is a second coin purchased in Axum, Ethiopia, and your assistance in ID is very much appreciated.

Busts on both sides, crescent above both. 15MM wide, 1.51 grams

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tomfurt

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Re: Help with Axum coin #2: silver, 2 busts, crescent moon
« Reply #1 on: October 13, 2014, 02:46:54 pm »

After a little more digging I'm thinking Endubis based on this:

http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/axum/endubis/i.html

Kings Of Axum (Aksum). Endubis. Ca 270/290-300 AD. AR 14mm, 2.23 g. ENDYBIC BACILEYS, draped bust right, wearing headcloth; dot in crescent above / BICIDLXY AXWMITW BICIDAXY, draped bust right, wearing headcloth; pellet in crescent above. Munro-Hay Type 2; BMC Aksum 8.

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Re: Help with Axum coin #2: silver, 2 busts, crescent moon
« Reply #2 on: October 13, 2014, 02:50:13 pm »
Yours is a modern fake though.
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Re: Help with Axum coin #2: silver, 2 busts, crescent moon
« Reply #3 on: October 13, 2014, 04:17:29 pm »
Thanks for your opinion. Any more info is welcome.

Are you of the opinion that the other 2 Axum coins I posted for ID help are fakes as well?
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Re: Help with Axum coin #2: silver, 2 busts, crescent moon
« Reply #4 on: October 13, 2014, 04:50:48 pm »
This is the only one you posted that looks like an obvious fake.  The others might be too, but not as obvious as this one.
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