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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 26273078, member: 128351&quot;]Very curious... Of course the pictures of the whole lot are not sharp, but it seems to me - is it just me ? - that there are at least two groups of double die linked coins : the red group and the yellow group. Your Greek legend tetradrachm is nr.2 of the yellow group, your aramaic (?) legend tetradrachm is the one to the left of the yellow group, and seems to be obv. die linked with nr. 2, 4 and 6 of the second row. </p><p><br /></p><p>Of course I cannot be 100% sure... But it&#039;s bizarre. When many die links are found within a hoard, it means the coins did not circulate much, if they circulated at all, and that the hoard was found not very far of the minting place.&nbsp; That&#039;s curious for a hoard including coins from different mints (Babylon, Tyre, etc.), some with circulation marks. And what I find most problematic is that so many double die links do not correspond to the known minting procedures of 4th c. BC mints (Athenian or imitative). </p><p><br /></p><p>Could these coins be very well-made modern fakes, trying to imitate a 4th c. BC hoard like the Iraq hoard, for example? </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1678357[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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