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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 2012464, member: 26302&quot;]OP, the first looks like an [edit - decadrachm] , but is poor style and those coins are exceedingly rare, but very commonly faked. The second has overall mushiness of details coupled with poor style of the Hadrian bust, and Hadrian usually have very high style quality of engraving. The third is a greek obverse but a Roman reverse. </p><p><br /></p><p>That is why others said they all appear to be fakes. I hear you, its nice to have details of WHY we say such things, but as AJ commented, sometimes its not so easy to verbalize. Your three do appear to have enough wrong to easily comment on WHY they are fakes. Also, check the edges for casting seams. Usually lower quality fakes will either have the seam still there, or you will see file marks where they removed it. This is a byproduct of the casting process for fakes, but never seen on struck coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Does this help? If not, let us know and we can go from there.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit: Btw OP, to be a little fair to the ancient group here, we see lots of fakes. Most of the time the postes ONLY want to know if they are real, (and of course if they are how much are they worth). So, over time we do tend to just get in the &quot;they are fakes&quot; mode, not going through the effort of explaining WHY simply because most posters do not really care. If you do, I am sure we are more than happy to try to show you why. We LOVE talking about ancient coins! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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