I was given this coin by a friend and have no idea what era or type of coin it might be. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks in advance.
My guess would be Roman, but closer than that I couldn't say--I'm not an expert. What is the size and weight?
Dont know exactly but looks Baktrian/Indo Greek. Unfortunatly it also looks cast to me. :/ hopefully someone else here knows.
Yes and the general soft details. Often there will be a line on the edge where two haves of a mold were joined or a file mark where that line was removed. When a coin is struck between dies, there is a look of sharp detail that is hard to reproduce when molten metal flows into an impression. Obviously there are modern casting techniques that are better than others but this one looks like a home workshop product made for the tourist trade. I do not claim to be immune from the best cast fakes but I agree with Randy that this one looks 'bad'. On the side, I'm not aware of the two sides shown here being used together on real coins but I did not research that completely so I could be wrong there. When it comes to suspected fakes, some of us call them 'out' before we have given them all three 'strikes'. Real or fake, a coin with grainy surfaces, soft details and a general suspicious look is not collectable IMHO. This is at least 99% certainly fake. I apologize to the coin if the photo made it look bad and it is in the 1%.
