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<p>[QUOTE="TIF, post: 2723546, member: 56859"]This looks like a match (from Forvm's Fakes gallery). Style-wise, it doesn't look like the Beckers I saw when hunting for your coin. The picture below looks much "soapier" than yours. Maybe yours is an earlier version and the one below made from a mold of yours? </p><p><br /></p><p>I agree with John-- yours looks suspiciously like a cast.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/displayimage.php?album=search&cat=0&pos=16" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/displayimage.php?album=search&cat=0&pos=16" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/displayimage.php?album=search&cat=0&pos=16</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/albums/userpics/12489/WOOL141.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Eukratides, 171-135 BC (Baktria and Indo-Greek)</b></p><p>AR tetradrachm</p><p>Diademed and draped bust right, wearing crested helmet with decoration, fillet border around / BAΣIΛEΩΣ MEΓAΛOY EYKPATIΔOY, the Dioskouri on horseback prancing right, each holding spear and palm, monogram in lower right field. Fillet borders</p><p>Sear 7570</p><p><br /></p><p>Purchased late 2004 / early 2005 near war zone Afganistan[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TIF, post: 2723546, member: 56859"]This looks like a match (from Forvm's Fakes gallery). Style-wise, it doesn't look like the Beckers I saw when hunting for your coin. The picture below looks much "soapier" than yours. Maybe yours is an earlier version and the one below made from a mold of yours? I agree with John-- yours looks suspiciously like a cast. [url]http://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/displayimage.php?album=search&cat=0&pos=16[/url] [IMG]http://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/albums/userpics/12489/WOOL141.jpg[/IMG] [B]Eukratides, 171-135 BC (Baktria and Indo-Greek)[/B] AR tetradrachm Diademed and draped bust right, wearing crested helmet with decoration, fillet border around / BAΣIΛEΩΣ MEΓAΛOY EYKPATIΔOY, the Dioskouri on horseback prancing right, each holding spear and palm, monogram in lower right field. Fillet borders Sear 7570 Purchased late 2004 / early 2005 near war zone Afganistan[/QUOTE]
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