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Ancient Coin Discussions In Other Languages => Foro de la discusión de Numismatic en Español => Topic started by: pedruscus on May 26, 2011, 08:16:23 am

Title: someone can help me with this coin
Post by: pedruscus on May 26, 2011, 08:16:23 am

someone can help me with this coin

Title: Re: someone can help me with this coin
Post by: Will Hooton on May 26, 2011, 08:45:39 am

It looks like a modern fantasy coin to me.

Title: Re: someone can help me with this coin
Post by: pedruscus on May 31, 2011, 06:28:29 am

but the strange is that we found some on the archives of a balearic museum, during more than 70 years it has been in a box

Title: Re: someone can help me with this coin
Post by: rover1.3 on May 31, 2011, 06:36:39 am

Quote from: pedruscus on May 26, 2011, 08:16:23 am

someone can help me with this coin

The legend side reads ΔΕΛΦΩΝ, means the object is from Delphoi,
probably a griffin's head right ?
The other side is in the style of the Ephesian Bee.

Regards,

rover

Title: Re: someone can help me with this coin
Post by: Will Hooton on May 31, 2011, 06:48:59 am

Modern as in not ancient. It might be a 70 year old fake or it might be a 5 year old fake. These things would be made for the tourist market.

Title: Re: someone can help me with this coin
Post by: pedruscus on June 07, 2011, 06:36:59 am

thanks for your answers. at the museum they have more than 100 coins that i think are falses, but all of them collectioned by a numismatic who directed n important museum of madrid and who wrotte a good book of iberic coins