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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3297977, member: 19463&quot;]My beliefs regarding this coin are based on having seen and handled only a few dozen obols of Athens.&nbsp; They come in several styles over the centuries but none of those styles remind me of this one.&nbsp; In addition to style, coins have a characteristic we call fabric.&nbsp; This is a set of characteristics caused by the way coins were struck.&nbsp; Your coin being mounted in a frame makes this hard to address but again the flan for the coin strikes me as too flat, too round and not like the coins in my experience.&nbsp; The photo makes the coin look silver but you say it is bronze.&nbsp; Athens made bronze coins but the ones I have seen were not easily confused with silver.&nbsp;&nbsp; I have no idea where it was made and do not make a study of fakes that would enable me to guess.&nbsp; I would encourage you to show the item to a few specialty dealers in ancient coins and see if any of them try to buy it from you.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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