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Lech Stępniewski:
People sometimes write to me (to the Not in RIC website) asking for the identification of all sorts of coins. As if I know everything. But I don't.

So please help me identify this one.

Weight 8.98 g. Diameter 25.47 mm.

Altamura:
It's a fake :-\: https://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/displayimage.php?pid=1887

Regards

Altamura

Lech Stępniewski:
Thanks, Altamura!

I was pretty sure it is an imitation but preferred to ask, because my correspondent who had this coin in hand introduced himself as a numismatist collaborating with the French museum.


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Please, move this thread to fakes.

Virgil H:
This may be a stupid comment, but my first thought when seeing the photo was a Celtic potin. Can you say why you think it is a fake?

Thanks,
Virgil

dwarf:
I don't think that this is a fake - I (and every collector of Ancient coins) knows it.
Stylistically there is no resemblance to a genuine coin.
This "forgery for tourists" is known for decades

Regards
Klaus

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