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49erfan New Member United States 3 Posts	Posted 07/20/2014 2:33 pm Came across this coin at home, need help to ID and value if possible. No luck searching the web. Thanks in advance for any help. Report this Post to the Staff

Kefiroth Pillar of the Community United States 1431 Posts	Posted 07/20/2014 2:36 pm I'm no expert here, but it appears to be a cast replica of an ancient Greek tetradrachm Report this Post to the Staff
Petrus Pillar of the Community Belgium 2895 Posts	Posted 07/20/2014 2:45 pm can ou take a picture without the capsule. First picture looks like owl? something like this : http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/gree.../gaza/t.html search : http://search.freefind.com/find.htm...anding+right Edited by Petrus 07/20/2014 2:49 pm Report this Post to the Staff
echizento Moderator United States 23731 Posts	Posted 07/20/2014 3:24 pm to the community It is a copy of an Athenian owl tetradrachm. Report this Post to the Staff
49erfan New Member United States 3 Posts	Posted 07/20/2014 3:30 pm Thanks for all the quick answers... So I take by the opinion that copy means "no value." I appreciate all the info and links. Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16826 Posts	Posted 07/20/2014 6:24 pm Hello and welcome. Some copies of coins can still be valuable - a contemporary counterfeit made to fool people as money 2,500 years ago is a historic artifact in its own right and just as collectable as a genuine coin. Unfortunately, your coin is not one of these. It is a modern copy, and a fairly crude mass-produced one at that. This particular style, with what I call the "Edvard Munch eyes", crops up here on the forum once or twice a year. Here's an old thread with one. They always seem to come in the same little round plastic holder; I assume whoever sold them or gave them away did so in these holders; they were probably given away as some kind of promotional gimmick, by Readers Digest or in breakfast cereal or something like that. 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
49erfan New Member United States 3 Posts	Posted 07/20/2014 8:37 pm Thanks SAP, and everyone for the info. No hitting the lottery on this one. Even so, great knowledge base here, and nice to have such good feedback and effort among the members. Thanks again! Report this Post to the Staff
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