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Ryan-Relic-Rescue New Member Canada 3 Posts	Posted 09/26/2014 2:10 pm Hello all I'm new to the forum. I found this coin yesterday metal detecting and was wondering if anyone could help me out a bit with identifying it. I think it's Greek. Any help is very appreciated. Report this Post to the Staff

echizento Moderator United States 23731 Posts	Posted 09/26/2014 2:48 pm to the community Going to need some better pictures, the reverse is too small. From what I can make out the piece doesn't look real. In what country did you find it? Report this Post to the Staff
Kamnaskires Pillar of the Community United States 7066 Posts	Posted 09/26/2014 2:53 pm Athena obverse, bull reverse. Report this Post to the Staff
Ryan-Relic-Rescue New Member Canada 3 Posts	Posted 09/26/2014 5:12 pm Hopefully these pics are a little better. From what I have found it is a head of Athena obverse, bull reverse. I have found the exact coin online but they are silver and this one is bronze. It's extremely odd for me as I live in southern Canada. The site I was hunting is a field but we believe it to have been a native American village or seasonal camp site due to the amount of native artifacts pulled out. We have also found lots of coins and military items dating from the early 18th to mid 19th century there. The only possibility my hunting buddies and I could think of is maybe it's from an early settler or military personnel . There is also a British/U.S. picket from the war of 1812 about 100 yards from where I dug it. that has produced well too. Report this Post to the Staff
Kamnaskires Pillar of the Community United States 7066 Posts	Posted 09/26/2014 5:28 pm Lucania minted Athena/bull bronzes. Perhaps other regions did as well. See: http://coinproject.com/coin_detail.php?coin=246586 http://coinproject.com/coin_detail.php?coin=209754 Report this Post to the Staff
echizento Moderator United States 23731 Posts	Posted 09/26/2014 5:46 pm Much better pictures, from these the coin looks legit. Strange that it was found in Canada it had to be dropped there from someone that lived there earlier. The Greeks never made it to Canada. Report this Post to the Staff
Kamnaskires Pillar of the Community United States 7066 Posts	Posted 09/26/2014 6:06 pm In "Ancient Coin Collecting," Wayne Sayles provides a great outline of the origins of the hobby. Included in his description is information about how, by the end of the 18th century, collecting really began to take off. By the 19th century there was "an expansion of the common man's participation in ancient coin collecting. Doctors, lawyers, clergy, politicians, military officers, diplomats and bureaucrats - all possessed the means to purchase ancient coins and build modest collections." He goes on to describe how the period saw the birth of numismatic societies and professional numismatic firms. I don't think it's beyond the realm of possibility that yours is a legit ancient coin that made its way to America in the 18th or 19th century and was lost in the area you found it. Edited by Kamnaskires 09/26/2014 6:08 pm Report this Post to the Staff
Ryan-Relic-Rescue New Member Canada 3 Posts	Posted 09/26/2014 10:29 pm Thank you so much guys. I really appreciate all the help and information. I would have never thought that I would have found one of these in Canada. I agree there's no way the Greeks were anywhere around here and that it's more then likely an early 18th or 19th century lost coin that someone had brought over with them or had acquired it somehow here. What a cool find cool and thanks again for the help Report this Post to the Staff
chrsmat71 Pillar of the Community United States 4970 Posts	Posted 09/26/2014 10:32 pm i'll be darned....what a cool find. who would think you'd find and ancient greek on this side of the pond! Report this Post to the Staff
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