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Offline Mateusz W

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Probably a greek coin
« on: March 22, 2023, 11:55:23 pm »
Not even sure if real at this point, looks odds

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Re: Probably a greek coin
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2023, 02:17:17 am »
It looks like a fake  :-\. The obverse with the goat imitates coins from Kelenderis, but the reverse doesn't match to that.

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Re: Probably a greek coin
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2023, 08:23:10 am »
Again, it looks like a cast rather than a struck coin.

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Re: Probably a greek coin
« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2023, 01:01:31 pm »
The side with both women and amphora is from an uncertain Macedon mint and real coins exist of this type.
It seems like there is one authentic coin in British Museum, which Caprara tried to imitate.
I can not finde the authentic one in BM.
But the Caprara forgeries, which imitate an existing type.

https://ikmk.smb.museum/object?lang=de&id=18284803&view=vs

https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb418499145

There are coins with goats too from Macedon mints like Aigai.

https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=macedon+goat+greek&category=1&lot=&date_from=&date_to=&thesaurus=1&images=1&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&currency=usd&order=0

https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7116407



Pictures

The 2 Top pictures show the Caprara forgery
Bottom coin is authentic for the other side with the goat







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Re: Probably a greek coin
« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2023, 01:09:35 pm »

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Re: Probably a greek coin
« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2023, 01:13:12 pm »
Thank you shanxi.

There is a forgery of the type with two women and incuse reverse from Petar Petrov in catalogue "3_Catalogue_Greek_Tetradrachm"
On pictures the coin on first post seems to be from different dies than the Petar Petrov fake.

I am not aware of more fakes of this type.
Cast of an unpublished authentic coin or cast of an unpublished fantasy forgery?


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Re: Probably a greek coin
« Reply #6 on: March 29, 2023, 05:21:13 pm »
Fake coin report(s) please.
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