I've had this piece for a long time and always wondered if it is real or not. It's silver, 26 mm in diameter and weighs 16.9 grams. The head is in very high relief and the reverse is slightly concave. You can sort of see this in the photo. I see no seams around the rim or other indications of it be fake but I know little or nothing about ancient coins. Thanks for looking. Mike
I'm by far no expert, but your coin looks wrong to me. I thought it may be a coin from Larissa, but I couldn't find anything like it. Don't take what I say to the bank. Wait for others to chime in.
Hairstyle looks off to me BMC 34 Katane, Sicily, AR tetradrachm, 405-404 BC. Artist Choirion. 26 mm. AΠOΛΛΩN beneath neck of laureate head of Apollo facing very slightly to left, strung bow in left field, lyre in right field, artist's name XOIΡIΩN to left of head / KATANAIΩN beneath charioteer, wearing a long chiton, driving a quadriga galloping right, rounding an Ionic column; Nike flying left above, crowning the charioteer; crayfish right in exergue. BMC 34; SNG ANS 1258; Hoover 575; Jameson 548; Gulbenki
The worst thing about this one to me is the way everything has way too much room around it. Die cutters of the originals designed things as if they were looking at the world through a tube and never showed that wide angle look with margins. Most are off center a bit but perfect ones like the one H8 showed still look crowded. The style just strikes me as 'wrong'. Compare to all the ones here: https://www.cngcoins.com/Search.asp...R_TYPE_ID_2=1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_4=1 Count the coins with 'boardwalk margins. I suspect you could research the fake databases and find a name of the modern engraver. Again, as always, this is not the place to ask about such a coin. If genuine, it is a 5 digit coin. You should not throw it away based on what some old guy who has touched fewer five digit coins than he has fingers tells you online. You could invest $50 in a certificate that I am rather certain would be a waste of money but probably is better than taking a vote here when it comes to finding the correct answer.
I can't find an example signed by Herakleidas (right side of the obverse) with a reverse that looks remotely like yours.
The obverse is a die match for a Peter Rosa replica printed in Wayne Sayles' _Classical Deception_ page 137. This doesn't mean yours is fake; Rosa used genuine and fake models for his reproductions. What it does mean is that the number of fakes greatly outnumber the genuine. The reverse doesn't show up in Sayles' book nor in _Becker the Counterfeiter_.
Thanks for all the responses and opinions. sadly, I've misplaced it so I can't take any more photos until I find it.
