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 Posted 10/13/2014  08:09 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Lala2008 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hi all

Complete newbie here. I inherited some coins and found this mixed in with them. Does anyone have a clue what it is?

Thanks

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 Posted 10/13/2014  08:16 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Petrus to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

I think it is a modern replica of an ancient coint.
Can I read 'NRL' on the first picture?
Bigger pictures would help
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 Posted 10/13/2014  08:27 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Medieval to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
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Both pictures have the top to the left, so yes bigger pictures turned the right way would help.

The top one shows a horse prancing right, quite a common image on Greek and Roman coinage. The bottom one though doesn't immediately remind me of a specific region.

From the sharpness of the 'strike' and the style overall I would say it is a modern tourist copy/token.
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 Posted 10/13/2014  09:20 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I believe the initials are "WRL". Westair Reproductions Ltd is a British-based manufacturer of replicas and reproductions of ancient and mediaeval coins. This piece is a replica of a gold stater of one of the pre-Roman Anglo-Celtic tribes. It would have originally been sold in a little informative card outlining exactly what it is a copy of.
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Real one might look like this:http://www.baldwin.co.uk/coins/grea....html?usrc=1
Second picture might be (found in Thornburn catalog):
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With the tip of Sap:
http://www.medievalcoinage.com/pdfb..._Britons.pdf :
see plates with pictures and description to find the real one
Also in the supplement:
http://www.medievalcoinage.com/pdfb...pplement.pdf
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