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  Weiss Posts: 9,935 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 28, 2014 11:53AM

  First looks to be a Parthian tetradrachm(?), maybe Volagases IV. That is, if it's authentic. Here's a similar piece:
  
  
  
  
  http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/feac12.html
  
  Second one looks to be a Spanish cob. To my admittedly untrained eye, they both look somewhat suspect. Too shiny in the wrong places.

  We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
  --Severian the Lame
  

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  lordmarcovan Posts: 43,215 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 31, 2014 7:29AM

  Agreed. Both look slightly suspect to me, but in my case, that is only a knee-jerk, instinctive reaction and nothing definitive.
  
  They just look a little bit "off", somehow. But only a little bit.

  
  
  

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  Andres Posts: 977 ✭✭✭

  August 31, 2014 8:35AM

  second one is a silver? spanish cob for sure, lions & castles, waves and a Catholic cross.
  What is the weight and approx diameter ?
  

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  NiceCurrency Posts: 885 ✭

  August 31, 2014 9:51AM

  I'll echo the sentiment that neither of these looks right

  =Recipient of the coveted "You Suck" award 4/28/2014=

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