Posted 07/13/2014 8:42 pm
Yes, it's not a genuine coin. Since the two sides of this "coin" belong to two different coins several centuries apart (the heads side is emperor Constantine or one of his family, circa AD 300-350, while the cross-side is taken from a Judaean coin issued during the time of emperor Nero, circa AD 65), it is more technically correct to call it a "fantasy" rather than a "fake", since genuine coins like this never existed.
Identical pieces have cropped up here on the forum several times before, such as this old thread. Given the number of times I've seen them, they're not a typical "tourist copy" like you find in the Middle East. I think they were machine-struck and mass-produced in America (or elsewhere in the West) for distributing by Reader's Digest or some similar company to promote a book on ancient history.
Identical pieces have cropped up here on the forum several times before, such as this old thread. Given the number of times I've seen them, they're not a typical "tourist copy" like you find in the Middle East. I think they were machine-struck and mass-produced in America (or elsewhere in the West) for distributing by Reader's Digest or some similar company to promote a book on ancient history.
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
