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Varahran II Family Drachm - Original?

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 Posted 04/24/2011  6:07 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add DagonX to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hi!

Few days ago I've found this coin - is it original?

Varahran-II-Family-Drachm---Original? Varahran-II-Family-Drachm---Original?

Thanks!
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 Posted 04/24/2011  9:59 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I think it's been tooled, but it's probably a genuine coin underneath. The headbands and eyes in particular look wrong. See this grifterrec page for examples of genuine, unaltered coins of this type.
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 Posted 04/25/2011  10:59 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add DagonX to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks Sap! [:)}

For now it's not mine coin - I only can buy it for 75$ and becaue I don't have any experience with these coins I had to ask.

And I know that this coin was repaired - the hole was knited up.

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 Posted 04/26/2011  12:53 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The hole repair is perhaps forgiveable, the tooling is not - that's just vandalism. I'd wait until an untooled example came along, even if I had to pay a few dollars more. $100 to $150 seems to be the going price for undamaged identifiable Sassanian drachms these days.
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 Posted 04/26/2011  2:12 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add DagonX to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I have to ask - what kind of tooling do you see on this coin? Some kind of design changing (using a stylus?), or something else?
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Anywhere on this coin where you see thin, sharp incuse lines has been tooled, or re-engraved with a knife or other sharp implement. The eyes, in particular, look messily done. The headbands on all three portraits have been hacked away at, and the young prince has been decapitated in a crude attempt to give him a neckline.

The headbands in particular are the most obvious that it's post-circulation damage. Even in thin incuse lines were technically possible back then, they should have been worn flat given the amount of wear the rest of the coin suffers from (such as the jewel on the king's shoulder, which was not tooled). The tooler was also apparently unaware that the prince's hat is supposed to be in the form of a falcon's-head; the fine detail that would have originally shown the bird's face has worn away and not been re-tooled. Compare particularly with this coin from grifterrec.

This damage may have been done in ancient times, by whoever it was that drilled a hole in it. But it was more likely done by whoever patched the hole up.
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