Alexander III Drachm - Opinions?

My mother inherited a pendant with an Alexander III drachm in it. My grandmother bought it in Greece over 50 years ago. Having been bought in Greece I know comes with a red flag, but I do not know if that would include what was being sold 50 years ago. She had purchased other coins which I have already shown here which were determined to be fake, and I suspect this one is too, but it looks a little nicer than the others, and so I wanted to get your opinions:


The coin itself (not the pendant) is 17mm, which puts it in line with other drachms I've seen. The weight in the pendant is 8grams, which is clearly more, but I don't want to remove it from the pendant to get the weight of the actual coin. The design almost looks too small for the coin, but I have not handled many Drachms. Anyway, any extra opinions would be appreciated! Thanks all!

 

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It definitely suggests a modern reproduction to me, although that may just have to do with 'stylistic' variations.....and I've been fooled more than a few times LOL

Although I do not see any issues on the edges....I'd try to match it up on the fake listings directories...

 

I have to agree with Mikey. Looks modern. Perhaps tourist fake?

 

Speaking of fake listing directories, my laptop crashed yesterday and I fear I may have lost the saved file with some links to ancient fake coins reporting sites. Can anyone PM me some? I need to start reconstructing my list from scratch. I wish I had backed it up.

Thankfully my coin pictures were saved in my dropbox account, so that survived.

 

http://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/index.php
http://www.forgerynetwork.com/
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=18502.0
http://augustusmath.hypermart.net/fakesellers.html
https://numismaticfakes.wordpress.com/

 

My best guess is 'Modern Reproduction', but the genuine coins were silver and the Modern Reproductions are less likely to be, so a silver 'test' might set your mind at ease?

 

All this will show is that it is silver or not. Many fakes are made from silver.

 

But if it isn't silver, it is definitely a fake. To me, some details look sharp and others look artificially "worn", but then again, I've been fooled too many times.

 

As the others have said, fake.

 

The flan looks fine, but the style looks odd. Most likely this is fake. BUT I'm not 100% certain.

 

Thanks guys - I keep forgetting to check the fakes pages, but will do that when I have a little more time.