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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;pirgah, post: 2973518, member: 92659&quot;]As a novice I´m still having difficulties with fake coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>I´m 67 and have bilateral cataract (initial stages) and the floaters most of the time fool me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some fakes are &quot;almost&quot; perfect.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately I have only these photos, so could someone help me to identify the authentic ones and attribute with references these coins? </p><p><br /></p><p>Of course to judge a coin if it´s fake or not only by a photo is almost impossible, but who knows if some of them &quot;shows its real face&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first one, Athena with Corinthian helmet and Nike (a silver coin?) is 15mm, the second Eukratides, (???) a good candidate for a fake, has 17mm, the golden one which &quot;I don´t know who you are&quot; is 18mm, and the elephant with a humped bull, probably Bactria, Apollodotos I, square AR Drachm (Elephant standing right, monogram beneath / humped bull standing right, monogram beneath. Mitchiner 207a)[ATTACH=full]730021[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]730022[/ATTACH] is 19mm X 19mm.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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