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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 974467, member: 19463&quot;]First of all I tend to agree as a first impression with this being a modern fake because it is too good to be true but I have been unable to match it and suggest you post this on the Forvm fake section with the pictures since their resource seems to lack it as well.&nbsp; If you did not pay over $5000 for the coin and buy it from a major dealer, it is even more likely to be fake.&nbsp; This is not the sort of thing that shows up just anywhere in &#039;real&#039;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Second, the coin is not a tetradrachm but a 15 litra or Tridrachm making the weight correct.&nbsp; If you find one that weighs 16-17 grams, that <i>is</i> a fake.&nbsp; Compare to Sear, <b>Greek Coins and their Values</b> #979 where it is illustrated or this one on acsearch:</p><p><a href="http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=102357" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=102357" rel="nofollow">http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=102357</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Before someone jumps on me with &quot;Where&#039;s the Bee?&quot; note that the acsearch link quotes the minor types of similar coins &quot;SNG ANS 754 var. (bee on obverse); SNG Lloyd 1524 var. (amphora); SNG Lockett 1008 var. (bee)&quot; but I don&#039;t own any of the quoted SNG (Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum) volumes so I could not check.&nbsp; The one in Sear is an amphora while the acsearch coin is a bucranium.&nbsp; There could be other minor types besides these three but I certainly am not the one to ask about that in this price bracket.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>acsearch also has a real dog of a $1000+ coin with tooled fields but I think I see a shadow of the bee which got tooled off when they were dressing up the coin for sale:</p><p><a href="http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=195179" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=195179" rel="nofollow">http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=195179</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Please tell the whole story.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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