Posted 11/03/2013 03:26 am
Someone's wild imagination of an Athenian coin. As far as I can tell, it's so obviously wrong it's not even funny (for one, I'm pretty sure capital theta never looked like that).
Can't date reliably, but suspect 20th century AD. Could be early 21st or, somewhat less likely, late 19th. Or could be one of these ancient imitation issues (if you're very lucky).
(In other words: it looks awfully like a modern fake, but it also looks so obviously wrong at the very first glance that one could wonder if it's actually ancient. More likely, though, it's made for the same sort of tourists as the infamous "widow's mite" pieces.)
Can't date reliably, but suspect 20th century AD. Could be early 21st or, somewhat less likely, late 19th. Or could be one of these ancient imitation issues (if you're very lucky).
(In other words: it looks awfully like a modern fake, but it also looks so obviously wrong at the very first glance that one could wonder if it's actually ancient. More likely, though, it's made for the same sort of tourists as the infamous "widow's mite" pieces.)
