Need some Ancients Coins Experts help, please! TTT for CIVITAS and JESTER :)

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Here are the pictures of some coin, that probably from the period of Antiochus VII (138-129 BC) and it is an offer for friend of mine, who also collect naval coins. His question is: is it possible to say something from that scan about the authentity of that coin: is it real one or may be fake?

Any help will be strongly appreciated and thanks in advance!

lordmarcovan

Looks OK to me- not an obvious fake, at least. I'm certainly no specialist in that kind of stuff, though.

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Thanks, Rob for your quick reply, I'll be waiting alos for other opinions





BTW, do you plan to give some prize for yourself, anyway? I think that if you won at Your giveaway, you should send to yourself something anyway! Seriously, it was a great FUN, thanks for doing it for us!

lordmarcovan

canadiancoinguy

Looks okay, though dark for a silver piece. Then again, my focus is 3rd century Roman silver.

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Thanks for the input, Canadiancoinguy!

May be Civitas from Italy tell us something about that coin?

Hope to hear also from Tbirde and Jester

tbirde56

Don't look at me! I'm not an ancients guy. If it is pre 1600 I likely know little or nothing about it.

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Thank you, anyway, Brad

Hope, that Civitas will tell us about that coin something

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TTT for Civitas, Jester and other "Ancient guys"

coachleonard

Hmmmmm, pretty puzzling design. Definitely greek and 2nd-1st Cent. BC is probably the ballpark. It doesnt
look like a Syrian coin as most or all that I've seen have a Selucid ruler bust on the front. It looks bronze to me, but maybe a darkened silver? Really peculiar object on the reverse, and I'm not sure what that is on the obverse. Hopefully somebody can weigh in with an ID.

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thanks, Coachleonard! I'll ask if it is possible to check coin's weight and will write back with or without details. one of the objects looks like an anchor, that was the reason that coin is so wanted by fellow-collector

1jester

Well, sir, I'm not THAT "ancient"....

And I don't know that much at all about ancients, unfortunately. As meLord put it, it doesn't look like an obvious fake at all to me. The apparant patina sort of says original to me. It appears to be sea-salvaged, or perhaps underground for a long time, judging by the corrosion.

CCC, meLord, Civitas and Coach are so much more knowlegeable than me, my opinion is virtually worthless.

GDJMSP

I believe Civitas will be gone for a while - about 2 months.

lordmarcovan

He's in Italia.

Sounds like one for the Olde Dead King or the Coach, I suppose.

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Thanks everybody, special thanks to Mike!

I know Civitas in Italia, but I thought he will post also from there..