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<p>[QUOTE="claycad, post: 559317, member: 17987"]<b><font size="3"><b>Cappadocia Kingdom Ariarathes III, B.C. 240-220</b></font></b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I ordered this coin on a total impulse. I just received it in the mail today, and being the first (supposedly) ancient coin in my collection I have no idea to tell if it is authentic. To me it looks far to shiny to be over 2200 years old. I'm not so concerned about the value, I would just like to know that I actually own such on interesting piece of ancient Greek history. But I would like to know a value to see if I got ripped off or not. Please, can anyone give me any information and the value of this coin and tell from the photos how authentic it is? I also linked a .zip files which contains very hi-res photos of the coin if that would help.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=check_download&ufid=TTZsZFhqRndVVGxjR0E9PQ&key=06df86ac83170b7dd82fcf95bd3e9834e1db7659&bid=UmNKWWVsT001R00wTVE9PQ&rcpt=jambog@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=check_download&ufid=TTZsZFhqRndVVGxjR0E9PQ&key=06df86ac83170b7dd82fcf95bd3e9834e1db7659&bid=UmNKWWVsT001R00wTVE9PQ&rcpt=jambog@gmail.com" rel="nofollow">coin.zip (5.72MB)</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j288/jambog/allpics.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="claycad, post: 559317, member: 17987"][B][SIZE=3][B]Cappadocia Kingdom Ariarathes III, B.C. 240-220[/B][/SIZE][/B] I ordered this coin on a total impulse. I just received it in the mail today, and being the first (supposedly) ancient coin in my collection I have no idea to tell if it is authentic. To me it looks far to shiny to be over 2200 years old. I'm not so concerned about the value, I would just like to know that I actually own such on interesting piece of ancient Greek history. But I would like to know a value to see if I got ripped off or not. Please, can anyone give me any information and the value of this coin and tell from the photos how authentic it is? I also linked a .zip files which contains very hi-res photos of the coin if that would help. [URL="http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=check_download&ufid=TTZsZFhqRndVVGxjR0E9PQ&key=06df86ac83170b7dd82fcf95bd3e9834e1db7659&bid=UmNKWWVsT001R00wTVE9PQ&rcpt=jambog@gmail.com"]coin.zip (5.72MB)[/URL] [IMG]http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j288/jambog/allpics.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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