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back1234 New Member United States 24 Posts	Posted 08/03/2013 11:53 pm Need to know year and what is the value for this coin Hope to hear from you guys :-) Thank you in advance Report this Post to the Staff

Ancientnoob Pillar of the Community United States 5155 Posts	Posted 08/04/2013 02:01 am 1960's AD. A cast fake tetradrachm of Gela. These were given out by Readers Digest. Worth a big fat goose egg. Sorry... Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16845 Posts	Posted 08/04/2013 02:25 am Sorry to be the bearers of bad news, but Ancientnoob is correct; your "coin" is a Readers Digest replica. They are probably one of the most commonly encountered and most confusion-causing fake ancient coins in North America; about four per year crop up here on the forum. I think this one might be the most recent. Genuine ancient coins with this design are silver, don't have the huge void in the middle of the man-headed-bull and, obviously, don't have "COPY" stamped below the chariot. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
publius Pillar of the Community United States 807 Posts	Posted 08/04/2013 02:41 am I don't know, those wretched, blobby "widow's mite" (imitation Alexander Jannaeus prutah) things have to be high up on the confusing scale. I much prefer Tom Maringer's version, which spells out "copy" in Hebrew on the lettered side! Report this Post to the Staff
Ancientnoob Pillar of the Community United States 5155 Posts	Posted 08/04/2013 07:48 am It's funny that actually says, "copy." What made you think it was real? Did you buy this? Report this Post to the Staff
back1234 New Member United States 24 Posts	Posted 08/04/2013 11:12 am I was cleaning my room and found my grandmother's coin collection that she left me. Got most of the coins catalogued. I'm learn alot how about coins in the last few days. Just wanted to make sure whether this coin was a coin or what not Thank you for identifying the fake coin Keep on a watch for more coins to be identified Report this Post to the Staff
echizento Moderator United States 23731 Posts	Posted 08/04/2013 11:26 am to the community Report this Post to the Staff
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