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Carl H

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Help ID Coin
« on: January 30, 2023, 11:58:15 am »
Please help identify this coin. Possibly Greek? 18mm, weight unknown.

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Re: Help ID Coin
« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2023, 12:30:04 pm »
These are identified by the symbols in the left field on the reverse and the monograms below the throne: The symbol in the left field is usually described as a buckle. Below throne: AI or similar. From the Lamsakos mint. That would make this M.J. Price No. 1380, or similar: see examples on [ACS LINK] or on ANS' PELLA database: [https://numismatics.org/pella/id/price.1380]. (And possibly "Price 1979A" (supposedly, according to a few firms; I don't it in the actual book or on PELLA.)

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I'm worried about this coin. Maybe others can weigh in, but unless this is the example that recently appeared at auction [ACS Link], the two are "too close for comfort." I try to be very conservative about condemning a coin, and haven't given it enough attention yet, but the defect on the reverse is similar.

EDIT: Thanks shanxi, worries were well-founded.
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Re: Help ID Coin
« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2023, 12:34:07 pm »
It's in the fake reports

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/displayimage.php?pid=1289

Just look at the big "defect" on the reverse and identical decentering.

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Re: Help ID Coin
« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2023, 02:11:35 pm »
Looks like a match to me. Thanks for the quick response!

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Re: Help ID Coin
« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2023, 10:14:02 pm »
This looks quite similar to the tourist fake I got in Ghazni, Afghanistan, in 2011.

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