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Coin ID needed, Please.

PRECIOUSMENTALPRECIOUSMENTAL Posts: 961 ✭✭✭✭
edited December 10, 2016 7:36AM in World & Ancient Coins Forum


This was posted on at a non-coin site, got me curious.
Thanks.

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  • SapyxSapyx Posts: 1,976 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Sadly, what you have here is not a real coin. It is a fairly crude replica of an Athenian "owl" tetradrachm. This particular replica, with what I call the "two-planks-of-wood wings" and the "Edvard Munch eyes" on the owl, is one that crops up quite frequently on the internet forums. It was apparently mass-produced and given away by Reader's Digest or some similar company as part of a promotion for a book. They often seem to come in the same kind of cheap airtight case. There are numerous examples posted on the FORVM fake database; Here's one.

    Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
    Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations"

    Apparently I have been awarded one DPOTD. B)
  • PRECIOUSMENTALPRECIOUSMENTAL Posts: 961 ✭✭✭✭

    This was posted on a firearms site, not mine.
    Thank You for confirming my suspicions.

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