Posted Today 14M ago
It was cleaned. Every ancient coin has been cleaned 
Some very few gold coins have been found mint perfect and carefully cleaned without leaving marks.
But every silver coin gt black oxides on the surface. If it looks shiny anywhere it has been cleaned recently. Do not worry about that.
You were not finding it because it is a coin of an usurper. Antiochos Epiphanes. 128BC. If genuine it is rare.
It does not look suspicious no me. Can be genuine. Lebanon as a place of origin causes suspicion. Great forgers of coins. Yous may be a cast copy. But they find genuine coins there.
What is the weight? Can you produce better photos outside plastic? Hos has the coin been kept for the last 50 years? Not inside plastic.
Some very few gold coins have been found mint perfect and carefully cleaned without leaving marks.
But every silver coin gt black oxides on the surface. If it looks shiny anywhere it has been cleaned recently. Do not worry about that.
You were not finding it because it is a coin of an usurper. Antiochos Epiphanes. 128BC. If genuine it is rare.
It does not look suspicious no me. Can be genuine. Lebanon as a place of origin causes suspicion. Great forgers of coins. Yous may be a cast copy. But they find genuine coins there.
What is the weight? Can you produce better photos outside plastic? Hos has the coin been kept for the last 50 years? Not inside plastic.
