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I Have No Idea What These Are!

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 Posted 12/27/2013  1:24 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add ebohan74 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
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I inherited a significant coin collection that I have been sorting through but there are three coins that have left me baffled. I hope someone in this community can help. I am attaching the pictures with a half dollar in the same frame for size reference. Any help in identifying these coins is greatly appreciated.

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 Posted 12/27/2013  3:13 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add zxcccxz to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Look like ancient Greek coins. Whether genuine or not, I can't say. There should be some experts here shortly to help identify them.
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 Posted 12/27/2013  5:53 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Hello and welcome.

#1 is a "tourist copy" of a rare silver dekadrachm from Syracuse, Sicily.

#2: the slow chariot in the upper picture reminds me of the silver tetradrachms of Gela, also on Sicily.

#3: you've posted the same picture twice; we'll need to see the other side to ID it properly. But at a guess, Carthage.
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 Posted 12/27/2013  10:03 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Yep, the third one is Carthaginian.
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 Posted 12/30/2013  8:17 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Ben to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Third one, oddly, does look authentic, but you'dhave to check with someone better versed with Carthaginian coinage. I recommend PMing AncientNoob.
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