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Discussion in 'Ancient Coins' started by Roxana Gomez, Nov 13, 2017.

  1. Roxana Gomez

    Roxana Gomez Member

    Hi my name is Roxana can somebody tell me about this coin please
     

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  3. On the reverse, just to the left of the eagle, are 4 Greek characters. Those characters provide the date; which in turn can provide which Ptolemaic King your coin was issued under. There appears to be a L II; but without having the bottom character on flan; I'm not sure if there's any way of knowing. It looks authentic to me and probably a tetradrachm; though similar looking didrachms were issued. Do you have a weight?
     
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  4. SorenCoins

    SorenCoins Well-Known Member

    These coins are Greek. They were minted from around 350-30BC if I am correct. That is really all I know about this particular piece. It is silver.
     
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    Beware of Greeks that bring gifts...
     
  7. Andres2

    Andres2 Well-Known Member

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    These silver tetradrachmas weigh between 14 and 15 gram, 10 grams means probably non authentic.
     
  8. Hommer

    Hommer Curator of Semi Precious Coinage

    The edges of your coin appear to be cut after strike, which would explain the weight and verify that it is fake.
     
  9. gsimonel

    gsimonel Well-Known Member

    If the coin weighs is 10.1 grams, then that concerns me. A tetradrachm should weight around 14g, a didrachm around 7g. It is possible that your coin may be silver plated rather than solid silver. That would mean that it's a counterfeit. It might be an ancient counterfeit that circulated around the same time as the real coins, which would still make it interesting and collectable, or a modern counterfeit, which would make it more or less worthless.
     
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  10. SorenCoins

    SorenCoins Well-Known Member

    Yeah it could be contemporary counterfeit.
     
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