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Ancient Greek Coins? Need Help Identifying

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Ancient-Greek-Coins?--Need-Help-Identifying

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These coin don't look right to me. IMO they are all recent copies.

I'm going to move this thread over to the Ancient coin section for more comments.
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Corrosion from burial can interfere with the surface of genuine coins. Sometimes the cast surface of a tourist fake can also resemble the corrosion surface of a genuine coin.
It would really be better to examine these coins in hand to offer a better judgment on them but,
my first inclination is to share the same 'gut feeling' as echizento.

I would certainly like too look closely at the edge of these.

The level of fake competency here, is the reason why I maintain quite a large collection of fake ancient coins, for my own education.

I have not done a search so far for verification of equivalent types thence comparison for style, but very often, the equivalent genuine coin is in silver.
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In order to declare something to be "fake", one should always try to compare it with the genuine article. In the case of the coin on the right, for example: it is a copy of a silver tetradrachm from the island-city of Arados; compare it with the ones labelled BMC 181 to BMC 284 on this Wildwinds page. The coin in the OP, however, is clearly not silver.

While I can't read the script on the other two enough to ID them, given the similar appearance, I'd suspect a similar origin - modern "tourist copies".
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