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"Bill Houston" might have been the name of a fellow-collector they bought off directly, rather than the name of a coin dealer. (View Post)

Top coin is "25 fils" from an Arabic country; show us the other side and we can probably tell you which one. The bottom coin appears to be a brass tourist replica of an ancient Greek silver… (View Post)

The overall porosity, lack of fine detail, plus the cracks in the lower field on the reverse, indicate it is a cast copy of an Indo-Scythian drachm/tetradrachm of king Azes. Silver painted or plated,… (View Post)

The "abbreviations" that trigger me are more along the lines of PCGS/NGC unilaterally coming up with abbreviations for currency units, when there are perfectly usable currency unit symbols … (View Post)

I'd call it a "jewellery replica" rather than a "counterfeit", since it wasn't intended to fool anyone into thinking it was a genuine coin. (View Post)