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 Posted 01/01/2012  2:27 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Darrel to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
hi, I just bought some coins and not sure if they are real, I have only been able to identify one (Syracuse Dekadrachm), however from looking at this site I think it may be a fake. could some one please help me identify these and tell me if they are fake or genuine. thanks.

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 Posted 01/01/2012  2:53 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Bacchus2 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Hi,

I'm afraid the news is bad. These are really pretty terrible fakes.
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 Posted 01/01/2012  4:01 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add echizento to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
to the community.

I agree they are all fake.
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 Posted 01/01/2012  4:12 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add MikeG to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Perhaps we could be kind and call them replicas; such things are made and usually sold in castle site shops etc. and not really made to deceive.
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 Posted 01/01/2012  9:44 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Welcome to the forum.

And sorry to concur with the others, but they all appear to be replicas of some kind.

The top one is indeed a replica of a Syracuse dekadrachm. Genuine examples don't have the huge wide rims like that, for starters.

#2 appears to be some kind of Romanesque medal. I assume it's rather large? The inscription is too fuzzy to read, but from what I can see the style of the lettering does not look authentic. It may be a copy of a "Paduan", a type of fake/fantasy silver coin made hundreds of years ago (original examples of which have now become collectable in their own right). So in that sense, it's a copy of a copy.

#3 appears to be inspired by Ptolemaic Egypt silver and bronze coins, though the artwork looks distinctly non-classical. Perhaps it was copied off of a line-drawing or picture, rather than an actual coin.

#4 is copied off of a "pith helmet" silver tetradrachm of Bactrian king Eukratides I. Clearly this coin isn't silver; it would probably qualify as a "tourist copy", the kind of thing you might find in the street-markets of Iran, Iraq or Afghanistan.
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 Posted 01/02/2012  12:35 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Darrel to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
EVEN KNOW THE NEWS IS BAD, THANKYOU EVERY ONE FOR YOUR INPUT.
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