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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3250637, member: 56859&quot;]Here are your images cropped and joined.&nbsp; For future reference, you&#039;ll get more views and responses if we don&#039;t have to click to open images and if the images aren&#039;t 10% coin and 90% background.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]852860[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>As Justin noted, the size is consistent with the denomination of drachm and it is in the style of Alexander the Great (a posthumous issue).&nbsp; I don&#039;t know how accurate your scale is but I&#039;m guessing not very if it displayed the weight as 0.1 ozt <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.&nbsp; That&#039;s ~3.1 gm, which would be suspiciously lighter than expected for a drachm.&nbsp; It&#039;s hard to say much about authenticity based on images alone (and small images at that).&nbsp; Also, I am not an expert though nor did I scroll through the large number of known fakes in various databases.&nbsp; Do you collect ancient coins?&nbsp; How did you come to own this coin?&nbsp; Did you buy it and if so, from whom?&nbsp; Was it a gift?</p><p><br /></p><p>Drachms of Alex III exist in <i>massive numbers</i> with a dizzying array of posthumous coins, such as yours, struck in his name.&nbsp; The reverse control marks (spear behind Zeus, barley grain below throne) are consistent with it being an issue struck in Kolophon, under Philip III, 323-319 BCE.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a recently sold example which matches your control marks.&nbsp; The price reflects its higher grade-- usually these posthumous ATG drachms sell for less.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.sixbid.com/browse.html?auction=943&amp;category=19422&amp;lot=901216" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.sixbid.com/browse.html?auction=943&amp;category=19422&amp;lot=901216" rel="nofollow">https://www.sixbid.com/browse.html?auction=943&amp;category=19422&amp;lot=901216</a></p><p><img src="https://www.sixbid.com/media/auction_images/943/901216l.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Kings of Macedon</b></p><p><b>Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. </b>Drachm (Silver, 17mm, 4.25 g 12), Kolophon, struck under Philip III, 323-319. Head of Herakles to right with lion skin headdress. <i>Rev.</i> AΛEΞANΔΡOΥ Zeus seated left on backless throne, holding eagle in his right hand and long scepter with his left; below throne, wheat grains; to right, lance-head upwards. Price 1751. Fresh and attractive. Extremely fine. From a northern European collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>The <a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=166759" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=166759" rel="nofollow">same coin sold in a CNG auction</a> a few years earlier than the Nomos sale.&nbsp; It&#039;s always interesting to see different photos of the same coin, so here is that CNG image.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cngcoins.com/photos/enlarged/2360069.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a nice pile of about a thousand ATG drachms which were sent to NGC recently (image by Barry Murphy; see <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ngc-ancients-looking-for-a-team-member.324171/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ngc-ancients-looking-for-a-team-member.324171/">this thread</a>).</p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/alexanderdrachms-jpg.826917/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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