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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;THCoins, post: 2751621, member: 57364&quot;]As far as can be judged from the photos the two Drachms in the opening post look OK.</p><p><br /></p><p>With these drachms there seems to be the same situation as with the Drachms of Alexander the Great:</p><p>- There are scarce very refined style life-time specimen, which are expensive.</p><p>- There are official specimen from mints with less artistic staff.</p><p>- There are posthumous specimen, of which no-one knows the official status.</p><p>- There are &quot;barbarous&quot; contemporary imitations .</p><p>- There are modern fakes.</p><p><br /></p><p>The third group is the biggest and cheapest. Sometimes these look as if they were based on worn originals. One has to see these in hand to decide.</p><p>What is also quite common in Indian silver is that low-quality silver coins are resilvered (after aggressive chemical cleaning) to make them bright and shiny again.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here another example for comparison:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]630409[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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