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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2592121, member: 10461&quot;]While authentic ancient Greek coins <i>did</i> have particularly high reliefs, this was my thinking all along, once I was able to see the larger photos.&nbsp; What you have there are not coins at all, but rather medallion-like appliques, or even part of the entire casting itself.</p><p><br /></p><p>Greek coins of that period in those types would be silver, as I believe you yourself noted.&nbsp; Considering these castings to be &quot;off-metal&quot; ancient types would be way off base.</p><p><br /></p><p>Which, again, is not to say it&#039;s not a cool antique item.&nbsp; It just certainly is not numismatic, and I dunno about the price.&nbsp; You said multiple hundreds of dollars?&nbsp; Yowch.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m still in the &quot;cane topper&quot; camp as of this post, unless convinced otherwise.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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