I was working on my World coin collection today and came across a couple of coins I picked up in the past. I thought it would be interesting to see what other collectors found in thier collections. The first I actually got from a coinstar reject bin ( I work for a major grocery chain, which has a machine in the lobby, I get a lot of nice rejects) about 8 or 9 years ago. At the time I thought I had a real find, until I looked closer. The one on the bottom is real. Sicily, Gela. Circa 480-470 BC. ARTetradrachm (17.02 gm). Charioteer driving biga [FONT=Courier New, monospace]right,Nike above / CELAS, forepart of man-headed bull right. Jenkins 124(O36/R75).[/FONT] The copy(facimile) is a 1946 with a mintage of 104,000, which if real would be worth about $25 in the condition above. The lower coin(1947R, had a mintage of 12,000, and worth about $1100 in Unc. What have you found that jump started your heart, then let you down?
My favorite is not a fake but a fantasy since there is no original prototype of a bronze provincial of Zenobia. This was tooled from a Roman as by someone wanting a super rarity. http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/fake.html My page is full of fakes with varying degrees of danger.
This coin is a 35mm fake coin which is not based on a real Roman coin. This fake Roman coin of Lucius Verus is similar to one which appears in the film "The Man Who Would Be King". http://www.cointalk.com/t175783 A gilded version also appears in the film "The Last Temptation of Christ".
