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Lenard
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Hello all,
long time since last post.

I am wondering pretty much about this kind of "coin".
It is so clean and shinny, is it even a coin or some kind of medal or just a strange fake .

Thanks all of you for your help.

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Looks like a tourist copy of a silver coin of Larissa
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It's is based on the design of a famous Greek coin, but IMO this is a cast copy. The detail looks too crude to be original.
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Lenard
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Thanks, it still surprises me to make something so shinny if someone wants to copy an old coin, more for tourist seeing.
I am going through the Calgarycoin website to learn how to recognise fakes (which I have quite a bunch). But it seems I'll need your help for a long time... So please be patient.
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www.forumancientcoins.com has a nice board which tracks fakes. Quite useful.
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