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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dwarf, post: 7875483, member: 115059&quot;]There is just a tiny problem <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie14" alt=":angelic:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>In the mid 70ies (last century of course) the pharmaceutical company SANDOZ - now merged with NOVARTIS - issued a series of replicas of ancient coins, all relating in one way or another to medicine. They were given free to MDs by pharmasellers as sort of entrance fee.</p><p>At this time MDs (anyway in Germany) were well educated in classics, they needed 6 years Latin in school to begin a study, a lot even knew Greek.</p><p>Among those replicas was this nice coin from Perge, showing two altars with styrax trees (Nollé now suggests that these are actually cypresses that died by lightning strikes - holy trees).</p><p>The replicas were faithfully marked as such. Unfortunately the word SANDOZ was in high relief and could easily be filed away. Now guess what happened!</p><p>Unfortunately your coin is an example of decent workmanship of an erased maker&#039;s mark.</p><p>When I began my studies of numismatics at around this time most collectors knew the replicas - but knowledge dies away and younger collectors and even coin dealers just don&#039;t know this story any more.</p><p>Still - happy collecting! </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1357299[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1357300[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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