Unknown Roman Or Creek Coins

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I would like to see closer pictures of all the coins. One or two at a time. But from what I can tell the first group look like copies and the second group look OK. But would still need closer pics to ID them.

Im afraid its not looking good - I reckon they are all copies. Some of the bronzes are very good copies though and I've not seen them before, so its quite an interesting lot.

Thanks guys for all the effort. They where bought from a guy that took us on a tour of the Ayasuluk Castle in Ephesus after it closed. He took us through a wire fence at the side. It was a brilliant tour and he said when it rains he goes up to the castle and find a lot of these coins in the mud.

Being turkey and there love of rip off stuff I had a feeling the big coins where fake, but he kept the small coins in a small plastic container and seemed to be more careful of them. I am glad I got them anyway and I hope to get more coins in the future as I really enjoy thinking of there history.

Thanks again

I hate to break it to you, but you were lied to. This is a variation on a "tourist scam" that has been running in the Middle East ever since the Crusades - locals take the pilgrim/tourist to a ruin "nobody else knows about" where there are coins just lying around by the bucketful for them to pick up. Sadly, the coins are there because the locals went around a few hours earlier and tossed bucketfuls of fakes which they'd just made a week ago all about the place.

You can be fairly certain that any "ancient coin" offered for sale to a tourist in Turkey, no matter how they obtained it, is fake. It is illegal to sell genuine ancient coins to tourists in Turkey, and it is illegal to export them without a permit. Most locals with genuine (illegal) coins to offload don't take the risk with tourists, since the "tourists" might be government agents in disguise. If you challenge a typical street vendor that their coins are fake, they'll give you a furtive look and reach under the counter for a box of much more realistic-looking (and much more expensive) coins. Those will be fake, too.

You are fortunate that your coins were not detected by customs authorities when you left the country; it has happened on more than one occasion in the past that tourists trying to leave Turkey with fake coins have been arrested for antiquities smuggling and spent several weeks in a Turkish prison until someone eventually investigated them and was able to certify that their "coins" were fakes.