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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gallienus, post: 1970408, member: 42034&quot;]Some background, the person involved served as an embassy official back in Syria or Turkey or someplace like that back in the 1960&#039;s.&nbsp; He bought the coin back then.&nbsp; This is the silver dekadrachm of Alexander which features him fighting Porus reverse.&nbsp; I did not see the coin as I missed that show but my friend [the distater owner] was there and gave me the details.&nbsp; Later I tried to research the coin further but couldn&#039;t make too much progress.&nbsp; Since he was a numistmatist and bought the coin long ago the coin could very well be genuine but I don&#039;t know export law well enough to know if the coin could be seized today by the country of origin.</p><p><br /></p><p>On melting Byzantine gold, it wouldn&#039;t surprise me.&nbsp; I get along extremely poorly with almost all coin dealers.&nbsp; I&#039;ve read that 5 or so years ago a dealer(s) melted down a USA $50 gold piece, probably 1915 Panama-Pacific, as well as some gold cobs, to get the gold.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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