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Help identify ancient coin

dcarrdcarr Posts: 8,007 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited June 13, 2018 11:34PM in World & Ancient Coins Forum

A friend owns this coin. I'm trying to identify it for him.
It appears to be silver (with significant "crust", especially on the reverse), 14.35 grams.

I think it is from Parthia, maybe a tetradrachm of Phraates IV or maybe Gotarzes II ?

I have found some similar-looking coins but none are an exact match.

Thanks for any info !

Moonlight Mint

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    numismagramnumismagram Posts: 146 ✭✭✭

    It is in the style of a Parthian tetradrachm, but unfortunately a fairly modern imitation.

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    dcarrdcarr Posts: 8,007 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @numismagram said:
    It is in the style of a Parthian tetradrachm, but unfortunately a fairly modern imitation.

    I thought that might be the case, although the heavy green crust makes it a little more convincing.
    Anyway, thanks for the info. Not big loss on my friend's part since it looks like even genuine examples in that grade can be had for about $50.

    Moonlight Mint
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