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Offline Victor I

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Help identify coin (ancient Greek?).
« on: January 30, 2023, 02:56:26 pm »
Help identify coin (ancient Greek?). Thanks.

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Re: Help identify coin (ancient Greek?).
« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2023, 03:24:46 pm »
What about size and weight?

But at a first glance it looks like a bad fake of an Athenian tetradrachm :-\: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=10403556

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Re: Help identify coin (ancient Greek?).
« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2023, 03:33:05 pm »
Weight around 27 grams. But it may be very off since coin has lots of dirt on it.
Diameter will measure tomorrow morning.

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Re: Help identify coin (ancient Greek?).
« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2023, 03:38:49 pm »
The photo didn't capture that well, coin has very thick dark black dirt with shining tiny dots all over the place on daylight.

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Re: Help identify coin (ancient Greek?).
« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2023, 03:40:35 pm »
But the dirt doesn't stay on fingers. Seems very old.

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Re: Help identify coin (ancient Greek?).
« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2023, 08:42:21 pm »
Looks like a really bad cast fake.

Offline Victor I

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Re: Help identify coin (ancient Greek?).
« Reply #6 on: January 31, 2023, 12:50:06 am »
Weight 27.72 grams. Diameter 3.3-3.4 cm.

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Re: Help identify coin (ancient Greek?).
« Reply #7 on: January 31, 2023, 12:58:32 am »
Googled tetradrachm (size and weight) and my coins characteristics are way off. I understand that what you say that it's fake. But who would even make a fake coin to look like tetradrachm but use more material for it's production, isn't that cost inefficient? Pardon if I am too naive about this.

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Re: Help identify coin (ancient Greek?).
« Reply #8 on: January 31, 2023, 02:23:17 am »
Quote from: Victor I on January 31, 2023, 12:58:32 am
... But who would even make a fake coin to look like tetradrachm but use more material for it's production, isn't that cost inefficient? ...
The genuine tetradrachms are made of silver, the one here is not. So the costs are not the point, and as long as there are enough tourists buying such stuff, it is probably worth the effort :).

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Re: Help identify coin (ancient Greek?).
« Reply #9 on: January 31, 2023, 12:30:30 pm »
Thanks a lot!

 

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