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Please Help With Ancient Gold Coin Identification (images)
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Please help with the identification of this coin. We very little with ancients. I am guessing that it is a Greek gold drachm, maybe Sicily? 300 B.C. or so?
It weights 2.3 grams and has a diameter of 13 mm. It tests as 22K gold.
Thanks in advance....
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Anyone want to venture a guess on this coin?
Thanks......
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I'm thinking it might be a plated bronze coin; a 2.3 gram solid gold ancient coin should be smaller than 10mm across. Get a specific gravity test done on it t see if it really is solid gold.
I should also point out that I have a small silver coin with a very similar goat on it, that no-one seems to know where it comes from; I've asked several experts. I'm still unsure of whether my coin is an imitation or not.
Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations"
Apparently I have been awarded one DPOTD.