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Message:: [QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 4378668, member: 110350"]If medallions of this type are that rare, the chances are excellent that what you have is a reproduction.  Did the seller provide you with any written provenance or other information about when, where, and from whom he or she acquired this object? My suggestion would be to consult a reputable antiquities dealer*, or someone at a museum that has an ancient art collection, to try to find out if it's an original or a reproduction.  I do not believe that this is an appropriate object to send to a coin grading company. If the object is original, you also need to consider the legalities of the situation, especially if the seller didn't provide you with any provenance.  Given the conflict in Syria, there's a great deal of stolen and smuggled ancient art floating around.  I don't know what country you live in, but please keep in mind that this object, if it's an original, may not have entered your country legally. * Note that the Getty acquired its example in 1971 from the Royal Athena Galleries, a well-known antiquities dealer in New York City that's been in business since the 1940s.  I've bought a number of objects there myself since the early 1980s, although none recently. See, for example, the Hellenistic terracotta roundel or medallion of a winged goddess from the 3rd-2nd centuries BC, on the lower shelf in this photo; I purchased it from Royal Athena in 1991: [ATTACH=full]1104283[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]