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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1803255, member: 42773&quot;]I don&#039;t like the look of that coin, Chris. I wouldn&#039;t go so far as to call it counterfeit, but it&#039;s too bright. Maybe it&#039;s the photography, maybe it&#039;s had a recent cleaning, but something just doesn&#039;t look right. I saw it when the dealer first put it on sale a few months ago and I&#039;m still suspicious.</p><p><br /></p><p>It looks like a replica tourist piece, frankly. By the time of Aretas IV, the &quot;silver&quot; drachms were down to about .500 fine - technically they should be called billon drachms. All of the coins I&#039;ve seen of this series look like billon. This one looks like pewter.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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