Can You Help Me? Ancient Greek Coin

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argentovivo New Member Italy 4 Posts	Posted 04/01/2014 09:58 am hi, my name is Valerio and I come from Italy. I am in possession of this coin, you can help me to identify it. Thank you and good things to all Valerio Report this Post to the Staff

Sap Moderator Australia 16933 Posts	Posted 04/01/2014 11:04 am Hello and welcome. Since you have the coin in your possession, perhaps you could answer one question for us. Because, in the lighting you've used to take the picture, the coin appears to be a sandy bronze colour. And this coin is supposed to be a silver drachm (or maybe a tetradrachm, depending on how big it is) from Bactria, in the name of king Heliocles. See examples on this Wildwinds page. If your coin is definitely not silver, then I'm afraid it's definitely not genuine, but a "tourist copy" of the type commonly encountered in Afghanistan. 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 Report this Post to the Staff
argentovivo New Member Italy 4 Posts	Posted 04/01/2014 11:11 am Thanks for the reply the diameter is about 3 cm Report this Post to the Staff
argentovivo New Member Italy 4 Posts	Posted 04/01/2014 12:51 pm I was now a goldsmith, he told me that the coin is gold ... at least on the surface, what does it say that it is false? Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16933 Posts	Posted 04/01/2014 5:50 pm Gold it certainly is not; a genuine ancient gold coin would not look all porous like that, since gold does not corrode. It's probably a cast brass replica of a tetradrachm. 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 Report this Post to the Staff
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