I know someone who recently inherited the attached picture coin. He only sent one side but assuming the other side is of the same quality....
It was two dollars, it wasn't bought overseas, I bought in US - he just seemed to be of foreign descent.
Came upon this at some street bazaar, foreign vendor, seemed to have no idea about the value of coins as they were rather randomly stored either...
It was conjectured that this could also be a wax sealing tool as opposed to my theory of a coin die stamping tool. [EDIT] But that would mean it...
Fair enough. I was trying to envision the potential on how the dies themselves were made and that a tool of this nature would easily make a die,...
I never said they were coins themselves. Was the agreement that the one on the top was an actual coin style or not? Disregarding the sides, which...
" How dies were sunk is still being debated. There is not much evidence, but we have the coins, and some idea of how many were struck. A coining...
For instance, lets say this was old, could something of this relief and metal composition make an actual cast for a coin - say the coin on the top...
I spent 325 on it, and it certainly feels valuable holding it. I probably will keep it because when I hold it, I get this sense that its old and...
What if this was not a stamping tool and/or branding tool from that era - and by era I mean like shortly after the New Athena came out. Its sized...
I will also say, the coins have a lot of depth to them so perhaps they are not coins afterall
I received it in the mail today - its pretty heavy and also pretty large. The coins are about the size of a quarter, little tad larger. They look...
I'm not meaning to argue, I mean by all accounts you are the expert, but the style I shared of the actual Athena appears pretty similar - as does...
Would you say this is a replica? I finally found a match for the top coin - http://www.ancientmoney.org/greece_proper/athens_antiochos.html Just...
And if it is the case, Slavey Petrov began his copying in 1966 - so Id have to determine if its older than that or really not that old. I mean...
For instance, http://counterfeitcoins.reidgold.com/slavey.html, the coin on the top matches very perfectly to what they say is Slavey's copy of...
That's fair, I'm still curious about the piece, but considering there are fake coins it makes my curiosity a little less captivated. It was listed...
Agreed that its too big, but I dont know about napkin ring either. Whatever it is I just bought it and it cost too much so I'm debating returning...
I don't know, its a ring that somebody made. It's very confusing the amount of work that went into the body to have fake coins inside.
Ive determined its a New Athenian Owl up top along with Alexander the Great coins on either side, but they look more like Slavey replicas than...
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