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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mbb, post: 3298160, member: 100480&quot;]Thank you! I am not a coin person at all. Have you any recommendations as to how one finds a reputable specialist dealer in coins? I am in the Boston area. Do you just Google it and hope that you get someone reputable?</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, I said it was bronze because I was told it was bronze, but that doesn&#039;t mean it is bronze. It could be silver for all I know. It is really teeny tiny. The only thing I know positively for sure about it is that it is about 7.5 millimeters across. I know that because I measured it myself.</p><p><br /></p><p>And that it has the owl on one side and Athena on the other. And the owl has the Olive Branch to its left and the Greek writing to its right. Well to my left and my right if I&#039;m looking at it.</p><p><br /></p><p>And I know that it looks like something is wrong with Athena&#039;s nose, and that the owl looks like it has been rubbed down until it is almost imperceptible that it is an owl unless you look at it with a magnifying glass.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know from reading on another thread, which I could not find any more once I registered so that I could post, that in later Athens, after they were no longer a big Power, that tiny silver coins with the owl and Athena were made. But since I had been told this was bronze, I figured mine couldn&#039;t be one of those.</p><p><br /></p><p>But from all that I&#039;ve been reading about fakes, which again I don&#039;t mind if mine is a fake because I really like it anyway, people don&#039;t seem to bother to fake the teensie ones. Most of the fakes that I read about were the bigger ones. Which of course does not mean that mine is not a modern replica. I just would love to be able to learn about it.</p><p><br /></p><p>If bringing it to a specialty dealer is the best way, then I would like to do that if I can find a way to find someone who is reputable and knowledgeable in both forgeries and in ancient Greek coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>If they offer to buy it from me, which I would refuse as it was a gift and I really like it, is that an indication that it might be real even if they are telling me it is fake? Because why would they want to buy a fake anyhow?</p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you so much again for all the information. Sorry if my questions are extremely basic. But like I said I am not a coin aficionado, I know nothing about coins at all except for what I have recently read about the various possibilities for this one. The reason the person gave this to me was because of the owl and Athena, not because it was a coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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