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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 1799053, member: 56859&quot;]I may have goofed big time.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bought this from CNG in August-- for a friend who asked me to pick out a selection of ancient coins.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know much about the series, hadn&#039;t bought one for myself, but I thought it was a nice classic type to include in his set.</p><p><br /></p><p>I really hadn&#039;t looked at it until today when I was gathering all the coins for his pile.</p><p><br /></p><p>It looks mighty suspect.&nbsp; I understand that there were some &#039;official&#039; fouree, the emergency issues, but if the attribution is correct this shouldn&#039;t be one of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the coin as pictured by CNG:</p><p><img src="http://www.cngcoins.com/photos/enlarged/3080093.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>ATTICA, Athens. </b>Circa 454-404 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23mm, 17.21 g, 8h). Helmeted head of Athena right / Owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig and crescent behind; all within incuse square. Kroll 8; SNG Copenhagen 31. VF, lightly toned, thin stress cracks on obverse.</p><p><i>From the Demetrios Armounta Collection.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>Here are some USB microscope pictures I just took.&nbsp; What do you think?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]291820[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]291821[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]291822[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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