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<p>[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 4163353, member: 85693"]I have several of these - I think they were faked a lot in antiquity - there are certainly a lot of them of low weight and iffy-looking metal. Production quality control wasn't always top-notch either. </p><p><br /></p><p>The idea that they were cranking these out for the Pompey-Caesar Civil Wars is a compelling one - the later ones were roughly denarius size. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is my favorite - it is awful, but I am very fond of it:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1073602[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4"><b>Illyria - Apollonia <b>Drachm - Class A7ALc2b</b></b></font></p><p><b>(52 B.C.) </b></p><p><b>(Niken and Autoboulos) </b></p><p>NIKHN above cow standing left suckling calf / APOL AU[TO BOU LOU]</p><p>around double stellate pattern.</p><p>Ceka 88</p><p>(3.08 grams / 20 mm)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 4163353, member: 85693"]I have several of these - I think they were faked a lot in antiquity - there are certainly a lot of them of low weight and iffy-looking metal. Production quality control wasn't always top-notch either. The idea that they were cranking these out for the Pompey-Caesar Civil Wars is a compelling one - the later ones were roughly denarius size. Here is my favorite - it is awful, but I am very fond of it: [ATTACH=full]1073602[/ATTACH] [SIZE=4][B]Illyria - Apollonia [B]Drachm - Class A7ALc2b[/B][/B][/SIZE] [B](52 B.C.) (Niken and Autoboulos) [/B] NIKHN above cow standing left suckling calf / APOL AU[TO BOU LOU] around double stellate pattern. Ceka 88 (3.08 grams / 20 mm)[/QUOTE]
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