Well I am at a lost with this coin anyone know what it is? http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/514/coins1ub.jpg
Hello and welcome to the list. The coin appears to be a modern issue/reporduction of an ancinet Greek piece. Maybe Phillip II of Macedonia or one of his sons Alexander the Great or Phillip III. The reverse is one I haven't seen and suspect it's a modern fantasy strike. Again Welcome Bone
well the funny thing is my mom found it on the floor in walmart she said some foreign lady was holding well actually clutching onto it funny and walking around with it and she must have dropped it and they kept it at the store and the lady never came back after the limit and they gave it to me, i have looked through the greek coins and havent found anything like it
Absoloutely,its a souvenir/reproduction of the coins bonedigger described above.The front shows Hercules or Herakles,looking suspiciosly like Alexander at a halloween party,with goat horns and all.The normal reverse of these is Zeus seated on a throne with an eagle but yours is some kind of "winged Egyptian guy playing ring-toss" theme that is not on the authentic coins...It's pretty though and not bad for finding in K-Mart! Welcome to the forum by the way!
it was walmart, and is it worth anything? what is the word on it? i have seen coins resmbling this one but not this one exactly
Ooops,sorry..got my Marts mixed up. The value is probably only a couple of dollars unless it's made of real silver in which case,maybe $10. Authentic Greek/Macedonian silver drachms of this type can go for $75 to upwards of $400 for large silver Tetradrachms in good shape. I would hang onto it in any case because Bonedigger and I are certainly not experts in ancient coins,just learning as we go and there's always a possibility it's real. Hopefully one of the true experts that belong to this forum will come along and offer an opinion. Oh yeah,the Greek coin in my member avatar is a later example of this type of large Tetradrachm from 70 BC.You can judge it's size from the old US 50 cent piece next to it.It is in "as struck" condition and I think I paid about $275 for it a few years ago.
yeah i hope its worth something... and hopefully an expert comes along anyway to test to see what its made of? cause i know nothing about coins thats why im here well thanks for your help i got a book from the library and it wasnt in the book actually there wasnt even a big greek section in the book know and greek coin sites?
