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Need sharper images. The crystallization looks good in the blurry image. A sharper image may indicate casting crystallization rather than those associated with age. Since I am ignorant about the style or what this coin is we'll both need to wait for an "expert" opinion.

 

I will say at once: in my opinion this is molding, there is a line of 2 forms on the end. Rather it is 100% molding, but my question is when it was made? Can this be a fake of the times of the ancient Rome?

 

No expert here but it looks like a Hadrian tetradrachm with Athena left with spear and shield Emmett 820 but your seems to read LI which is not a choice. I see nothing in the photo that looks out of line for a low grade coin of the period but I can not ID it so I can not comment on it being fake.

We have a language barrier here. Are you saying the flan was made in two halves and they do not align properly on the edge?

 

Yes!!!!!!Two halves….

 

Show a photo of the edge. Two in different places would be nice. I think I see a raised line along the bottom of the obverse in the photo. This may only be a thin line of corrosion (?) as that's what it looks like to me .

 

It's hard to judge from your images and description, paschka, but what I see and what you've described doesn't necessarily condemn the coin.

Here's another Alexandrian coin-- a diobol of Augustus-- which I returned after seeing the active corrosion which was threatening to split the coin into two faces!

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Side shots in hand:

 

Friends! In my opinion this line is from casting and 2 forms with this. So the coin is cast, but I was told that the coin was allegedly found in the ground. Perhaps then it was lost by a modern counterfeit coin, and perhaps it was made in the time of ancient Rome, because then the same forged coins by casting?

 

Well now, that DOES look like a casting seam. Note how it even crosses the void in the edge. I have found that extremely thin raised ridges such as this indicate excellent molds and modern casting techniques. That coin needs to be examined in-hand by ancient authentication experts to be sure.

 

Maybe it's still a handiwork from ancient Rome and local counterfeit coins? After all, in ancient Rome, they made cast forgery of coins !!!!

 

Tell me please, can it still an ancient cast coin of Roman counterfeiters?

 

Size and weight will help the experts here.

I'm no expert, but it is possible that it's a genuine coin struck on a cast flan. I know at least some Alexandrian flans are cast.

 

Yes, does it look like Alexandria and is it possible that this is a cast coin from the ancient Roman-Ptolemaic era? It would be super cool, but I thought that it was a forgery of 21 or 20 centuries ..... and was depressed because of this.

 

Definitely a possibility, Doug is right that it's Hadrian (117-138). Here is a similar type: http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/hadrian/Milne_1084.jpg

 

Here's the one Doug cited, which is a good match. The year on yours is sufficiently obliterated that it may be impossible to decipher.
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=5710&pos=7

@Okidoki may be the person to ask about this one.

 

Rev. L I

 

Are you sure about that?

 

Yes, there L I , but the coin is big and heavy, gram 15

 

That's a bit heavy for a tetradrachm, but not out of the question.

Couldn't it be L Γ for instance?

 

Yes, there L Γ