It’s original or fake help

Hello all
I have today this coin

I think it’s
Coinage of the Republic of Venice

But I am confuse it’s fake?

 

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Moda888, Your photos are awful ! Please take better photos so Coin Talk members can see what they are looking at. What is the diameter and weight of the coin ?

 

Try « Venice ducat » on Forum’s Fake coin Report. It may help you.
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/

And perhaps there is an expert on this board.

 

After you take better images, and crop out the 95% of non-coin background, try posting the coin on CT's World Coins board along with the coin's size, weight, and how you acquired it. I don't think there are many collectors of these ducats here on the Ancients board.

 

Its a forgery of a Zecchino of Alvise IV (1763-1778).

Barry Murphy

 

How can you tell from these images?

 

The images can be enlarged, even on my phone. It’s not close in terms of style or fabric.

 

I see your point though I wonder if it might be one of the Crusader duchies in Greece copies which vary considerably from the Venetian originals but served as models for the Greek ones.

 

The crusades were long over in the late 1700’s.

The Chios and other Greek imitations copy earlier doges from the 1400’s. There are some later Levantine copies but I don’t recall them continuing into the 1800’s.

I’ll have to check the references tomorrow.

Barry Murphy

 

Yes, I realize that this one was far too late to be copied by the region of Achaia.