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Help Identifying Ancient Silver Coin

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 Posted 02/09/2014  11:35 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Rob08 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I have no idea about these silver coins / Staters (?) but they look nice & I am very interested to know more about them:



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 Posted 02/09/2014  11:58 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add xodus to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I would say that they are both definitely Greek, but am unsure as to who's face that is. I only know a tiny bit about Roman, but see this face continually while looking through ancient coins on ebay. Have you looked at wildwinds.com?
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 Posted 02/09/2014  12:07 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Masis to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
He can find a lot of genuine examples on Wild Winds, but our reticence to have hitherto replied is that these are often faked.

Below is a genuine example of the Rhodes AR Tetradrachm from Wild Winds:
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http://wildwinds.com/coins/greece/r.../BMC_122.txt
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 Posted 02/09/2014  8:38 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add augustus1 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The top one is a modern fake. The other one is too beat up to easily tell.
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 Posted 02/09/2014  10:47 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
<--- The one over there I use for my avatar is real, if a bit "squashed" - these coins are rarely perfectly round, more often egg-shaped, but the forum admins here stretched the pic out to 100x100 size. So the roundness of the coin in the top pic is the first-glance giveaway to me that it probably isn't legit. I'm also not aware of Rhodian didrachms or tetradrachms with two clusters of grapes; there's often one cluster, but only one. I suspect the modern artist was striving to recreate what he assumed was some lost symmetry that did not actually exist on the coin he was copying.
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