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Unidentified Horse Head Profile Cee/Woman? Behind Horse CO

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 Posted 03/25/2013  11:58 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Lizadee to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hello, my uncle has me trying to identify this coin for him. I usually do a decent job helping him with antiques, but numismatics is a whole new world! Not sure about anything regarding this coin. Unfortunately, the pics aren't very clear. He says one side is the head and shoulders of a horse possibly with the letters CEE above. The other side appears to be a woman behind a horse. Below the horses legs appears CO. All of these pics are the same coin...I will work on getting better pics. Thanks in advance for any ideas! What fun this is!


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 Posted 03/26/2013  12:00 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Fuzzy317 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
sorry, but if those item numbers are correct, ebay says each "..has been removed, or this item is not available."

your pictures are showing now, and Sap is on the job
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Not sure why my pics came up as ebay item numbers? I have nothing to do with ebay. Hmm. I just tried to optimize them again. I also renamed them. Hopefully, they are visible now. Thank you!
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 Posted 03/26/2013  12:26 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Hello and welcome. I can see your pics just fine right now.

Unfortunately, I don't have good news about your uncle's coin. It is not a genuine coin. It is a replica of an ancient Greek coin from the city of Gela, Sicily, that was mass-mailed out by Readers Digest to promote a book on Greek history they were selling at the time. It was originally glued to a card; the large hole on the man-headed-bull's neck was put there on these replicas to hold the blob of glue to attach it to the card. On the other side, below the charioteer, is supposed to be stamped the word "COPY" - but it sounds like only the letters "CO" on yours are visible.

We've seen literally dozens of these crop up here on the forum over the years; they must be one of the most widely distributed (and most confusion-causing) replica coin types in North America. If you click on this link, you can see an earlier example, and follow the link chain back to other examples posted here. Or, do a forum search for the word "Gela", and you'll find more than enough old threads about them.
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 Posted 03/26/2013  07:10 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Lizadee to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you so much for solving the mystery! Now, I wonder about the other coins in the box. He told me after I posted there is also an 1872 Indian Head penny in great condition. I am going to read about them today. Thanks again, this is an awesome site even if he doesn't have an ancient greek coin. :-)
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I remember when these came out in 1986 (or thereabouts). I was just a kid but my grandparents gave one to me. I still have it somewhere. It originally came glued to a card which told what it was.
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