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Ancient, Need An ID

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I have 3 coins that I have not been able to identify. I tried numista, that's where I identified over 200 world coins except these 3. Even a step in the right direction would be great. Sorry if the pictures are bad, still learning how to photograph coins.

(I have no idea why the images got smaller as they were uploaded or how to fix it...)

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You did post this in the right place, the Identification section. I moved your post to the section for Ancient coins for a slight change in audience
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The first coin appears to be genuine and look Phoenican, but that all I can tell at this time. The images of the other two are way to small but from what I can see they do not appear genuine.
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The last two were a long shot, I think they are fake because they definitely have a definitive line around the edge, all the way around. Even appears to be a little tooled to get rid of excess junk. I am no expert but I assume that is a sign?

I bought them for $1 total off a kid when I was deployed to Iraq with the US Army.
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the first one is Phoenecian and is either 1st or 2nd century AD + has the face of the goddess Tyche on the obverse with a ship on the reverse
similar to
http://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=248223

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Thank you for your service. You did OK at least on the first coin. It's worth more than the $1 you paid.
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The tyche looks authentic to me. Its an intersting bust type - 'turreted' - it effectively shows a city perched atop tyches head.

The other two are copies of tetradrachma - the bottom one is Alexander, but I'm not so sure of the other one.
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It's weird that the kid sold me two copies and a real coin. Maybe he did it by accident or he was just being nice since I did build a good relationship with his family while I lived in their town. Basically I understand that it is a Phoenician tyche type coin. I took a look at the example posted by arnoldoe, it does look very similar. I'll put that coin aside for further research and toss the other two in my fantasy collection. Thanks!
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