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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I have had this coin for about 30 years - it was given to me by my grandmother along with several other ancient coins when I was a kid. All the coins came from the family collection and were in little brown 2x2 envelopes. I always thought it was neat, but I never knew what it was or even where to look as there was no writing. It actually bounced around through the years in various night stand drawers in college, etc. Anyway, I finally found someone good at identifying ancient coins, and he identified it as a Cyprus Paphos AR Stater, from about 460 BC. It seems to not be a common coin, and expensive given the condition it is in. There are two currently on ebay listed for $1599 and $2999, though this one seems a bit less worn than those. I thought you all would like to see it    |
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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I quite understand why you wanted to show it! Shows up in Greek Coins and Their Values as Sear 3595, and British Museum Catalogue 24.37,13 I have just searched for similar silver staters on VCOINS. By considering the condition of yours in relation to the examples for sale revealed in the vcoins search, your coin may be valued at perhaps around $4,000. Quit a nice little treasure  Please don't sell it! Keep it in your family as a treasured heirloom. Edited by sel_69l
11/05/2013 10:06 am
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 United States
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Beautiful coin. Can you give the size and weight?
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Valued Member
United Kingdom
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Fantastic coin susuman, the eagle on the reverse is particularly cool ..
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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That is a FAB coin. Love the eagle.
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Australia
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A nice coin indeed. A pity it's not slightly less off-centre, but still eminently collectable.
I should perhaps caution you that if you decide to travel overseas, never take this coin with you without full and proper documentation for it. America has a Memorandum of Understanding with Cyprus protecting their cultural artifacts. If US Customs agents find it on you when you return to America and you have no paperwork to prove that you didn't just steal it from Cyprus, then they might assume that you (or your friends) did in fact just steal it from Cyprus and your coin might be seized and sent back to Cyprus.
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
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Can you give the size and weight? The weight is 11.79g +/- 0.91g The diameter is 21.46mm side to side and 20.54mm top to bottom. Errors are +/- 0.01 mm. This is a little bit heavier then the couple other Pathos Stater coins I could find data for. They were closer to 11.0g. Though this is within my error. This coin was added into the family collection on July 13, 1951. I will look through some old records and see If I can recover what the cost was. |
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United States
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Sap, Thanks for the information -I did not know that. Although I do travel a lot, it is on other business and I do not take coins with me except for UNC current US coins I sometimes give out as souvenirs. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Wow--that's quite a large and impressive coin! And the first time I've seen this type. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Now something like this great. Just about any coin can be had for a price, but it inherit a coin of this caliber is something special. If it were me it would be priceless.
I would listen to the other guys and to not travel with it.
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