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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 1090210, member: 57463&quot;]Understand, however, that coins like these are routinely made as copies for jewelry. </p><p><br /></p><p>Numismatic Guaranty Corporation (NGC) is the official grading service of the American Numismatic Association.&nbsp;&nbsp; Authentication costs about $50 per coin.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>If you goto the ANA website (<a href="http://www.money.org" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.money.org" rel="nofollow">www.money.org</a>) and look at the left under Membership and under that dropdown for Dealers, you can find an ANA member dealer near you.&nbsp; You can search by specialty for Ancients.&nbsp; ANA member dealers adhere to a Code of Ethics.</p><p><br /></p><p>If your area has a larger local coin show, sponsored by a local or state club, one of the dealers there may be a specialist in ancients and Old World.</p><p><br /></p><p>Neither one of your coins looks genuine.&nbsp; &nbsp; I have published over a hundred articles on numismatics, many of them about ancient Greek coins.&nbsp; I have no idea if your coins are real, but it looks wrong to me, the way a Ford F-150 with a Dodge Ram nameplate would not look like a Dodge Ram.</p><p><br /></p><p>As helpful as people want to be, when you ask a question in a popular forum, the answer you get is just the first response</p><p><br /></p><p>Mike M.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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