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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2011756, member: 42773&quot;]Plenty of fakes were made in ancient times. As soon as coins were invented, counterfeiters followed suit. I have a page full of ancient fakes. So it could be an ancient fake.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I don&#039;t think it is. I think it&#039;s a tourist token that got lost and buried. There is no attempt to faithfully reproduce the original coin, which looks like this...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]362631[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Your coin only mimics the devices in a very general way, which is typical of tourist tokens. They aren&#039;t meant to deceive, they&#039;re just cheap mementos.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just because something was found buried in the ground doesn&#039;t mean it&#039;s authentic. All it means is that somehow it wound up buried in the ground.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, I think the desert &quot;patina&quot; is fake. Someone applied some dirt to the coin with glue perhaps. It&#039;s hard to tell without seeing the coin in hand.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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