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Syracuse reproduction?

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Rupert:
This coin was sold as genuine, 30 mm, about 20 grams, a few days ago on German Ebay (201€). Looks to good, too shiny to be true. Since this is an extremely famous coin-type (a tetradrachm from the "Demareteion" series), this might be a known museum reproduction??

Rupert

PS: Note the poor pics to sell such a coin!

Joe Sermarini:
The photo is so bad, it simply must be fake.  If you had a real one, wouldn't you take a better pic?

oerlikon20mm:
See the attached pics.  This is that Caracalla Aureus I won quite some time back.   These are the actual pics from the auction.  Guess I got lucky.  Just remember, some people really do not know the rarity of coins when they sell them.

Gunner

hitchuk:
20g would be quite overweight, Weren't these on the Attic standard?

Roger

Rupert:
Sure, 20 g would be quite some evidence for a fake; they're Attic standard, about 17 g. However, "about 20 g" is a somewhat nebulous statement; I didn't buy the coin, so I don't have it and don't know how the seller weighed it.

Rupert

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