Identification Help

Ah nice work guy's, Ben where did you find the match?

What's the sand and weather like in Cape Cod?

Edit:- http://www.forumancientcoins.com/ca...s=471&sold=1

Scroll down and your coin is there, with the description. Apart from as Ben mentioned, the Greek writing.

I was hoping for dry sands, but I guess the salty ocean air and sea would definitely leave a mark :(. I was hoping for ancient evidence.

Here is an interesting site on Alexdrian tets, sadly it doesn't give any reference numbers though. http://tetradrachm-alexandria.blogspot.nl

what a great find. I don't know if it was planted or not...i prefer FR's cheapie coin purchased by someone not really all that intersted in ancients and lost. if it was planted, I sure as heck wish these people come plants some tets in my yard.

So thanks to you guys I know definitively what coin it is. I know they are not worth much so will just pass it down to my son along with my collection, but judging by the photos what condition would you call it?

Nice coin. already been ided so nothing much to add there. I have a fair few of this type now, I posted one a while back and got all the info passed onto me to id them. The value varies quite a bit, I have sold 4 in the past few months and they sold for between 18 GBP up to 32 GBP., no idea what made the price difference, a gap in a collection maybe.
Just out of curiosity, you didn't happen to find any old lead fragments round and about this did you? The ones that have the 'white' look?

Just a curiosity thing. Had a few met buddies find items in places they should not be so did a little research into why.
A lot of the beach found stuff came from collapsed dunes and such and many had small fragments of lead near the find.
Obviously, the old dry sand dunes have little impact on the state of the coin as the salt content and other are exempt.
But what is of interest is the way that many items such as yours are found many miles from any connection but always get disregarded just simply because records suggest these things never got to these places.
Looking at it, it is not something that you would say has been sat in a sandy, beach type location for years, However I have seen coins pulled from dune sand that have had little or no effect from the sea or weather.
The coin is probably a drop from a careless past collector, but non the less, well worth recording the find in the correct way.
Its easy for us all to say its planted, or whatever, but sometimes even the 'experts' (that rely on sketchy writings at best) admit the expanse of the Roman empire could by far stretch way beyond our knowledge.
Nice coin and nice find

In Yarmouth, MA there is a large rock in the middle of Bass River that has ancient Runes carved in it. I've seen them myself. It's rumored that the Vikings lead by Lef Ericson sailed up the river and the Runes where left there by his party. No other evidence exists other than it was known the Lef did reach the shores of North America. Makes for and interesting story though.