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I've spent the last 30 minutes looking through Sears Greek Coins and their values, vol 2. I'm more confused now than when I started. The bust look so much alike.
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I'm no expert on these, and I don't want to dismiss a coin out of hand...I hope it's real.  |
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Sorry, but it's definitely a replica. The portrait is very crude for a gold coin and the eagle on the other side is barely recognizable as a bird. I'd also agree that it's a copy of a silver coin, the one Dionysos mentioned. Wildwwinds example. Your coin might be genuine gold, but it's not a genuine ancient coin. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Ummmm? ... well even "if" it is real, then what an absolute disaster that some jerk decided to make a necklace outta it ... eeccch, that's just nasty, no?  *** Edited by Staff | The bad word filter is in place for a reason. Bypassing the filter and making the intended word obvious anyway is completely unacceptable. *** |
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Ptolemy X, svoronos 1680... The portrait sure looks similar in style, although the flan is really wavy on the reverse--does that happen on genuine coins?  |
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"The portrait sure looks similar in style, although the flan is really wavy on the reverse--does that happen on genuine coins?" Reverse is weird looking indeed (style, wave/bump ?). I wouldn't say for sure that it's genuine from those pics and with no weight... But there's a chance that it is and, if not, it is probably what it's intended to be |
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stevex6: Ummmm? ... well even "if" it is real, then what an absolute disaster that some jerk decided to make a necklace outta it ... That jerk was likely my grandmother. She passed it on to me. But I do agree making it a necklace bound that way was not a good idea. My grandfather was a metallurgist with degrees from M.I.T. and they traveled the world with his work, so I have no idea where it was purchased, but they did have oodles of disposable income. *** Edited by Staff | The bad word filter is in place for a reason. Bypassing the filter and making the intended word obvious anyway is completely unacceptable. *** |
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Im late I see... It doesn't appear real to me although it kind of looks like mine. Ptolemaic Kingdom, Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysos, 80 - 58 B.C. and 55 - 51 B.C. All references list Alexandria as the mint. However, the Î Î' monogram is unmistakably the mint mark of Paphos, Cyprus. 13.77g  Edited by Ancientnoob
08/25/2012 2:34 pm
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The reverse is quite similar to this other Ptolemy X.  Would definitely need some clearer pics... |
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*awkward* => hey sorry, TallestTree ... I guess I should have read your thread from the beginning?!! (I didn't mean to disrespect your Grandmother) ... ......  |
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No worries stevex6. It shows you genuinely care about coins and concern in my quest to determine whether this coin (in a terrible mount setting) is authentic.
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Dionysos, more pics in previous post. But I'm having trouble with better quality as the size limit is 100KB. I took these with two different cameras with varying light and flash combos, camera functions -- took more pics of this coin then I did at a beautiful wedding yesterday -- and these are about as good as I can get it without loosing my mind :)
Although I suppose I could crop the pics of the coin into "pieces of eight" (pun) or sections. Is there a certain area of the coin you, or others, are interested in? Also once I get my patience back, from the many pictures taken and cropping to yield only a couple semi-decent shots, I could try to do some more photos.
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From the pics, the surface is quite strange on the reverse. Looks bent/wavy/bumpy (?). But the obverse is ok |
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Posted 08/24/2012 9:18 pm
