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A Starlit Party Monk New Member Denmark 3 Posts	Posted 12/30/2015 08:39 am Hi everyone, my name ís Tristan and I live in Denmark. My American grandparents are really rich, and sent me a couple of boxes of gold and silver jewelry a couple of years ago. There was a ton of 18 karat gold rings with gems, and even a rolex in them. I didnt really care about any of that. (i dont care about such stuff) The only thing that caught my attention was a small gold coin, that looked Really old. now 3 years later, I went through everything, and I found it again. Its a silver ring (925) with a small gold coin in the front. I know the ring is about 40 years old (when my family got it) but the coin looks like the ones Alexander the great made with Hercules on them. I believe this because the lions mane is really obvious on the coin. I dont know the first thing about gold coins, since I so far has only collected coins from 1800-1950. Any information would be most helpfull. I have added pictures of the coin to identify. (I have a really odd intellectual rich family, and no idea how this item came into their possesion, but there was a ton of old stuff, for example a gold caravaca cross which a guy in an antiques store said was about 200-300 years old) Report this Post to the Staff

A Starlit Party Monk New Member Denmark 3 Posts	Posted 12/30/2015 08:42 am I forgot to say, it is almost perfectly 1 cm in diameter. Report this Post to the Staff
jbuck Moderator United States 190135 Posts	Posted 12/30/2015 09:11 am to the Community! I moved your post to the appropriate forum for the proper attention. Coin Collector Since 1978 Avatar Old Avatar 7070 Eisenhower Australia Canada World CCF Members on eBay CCF eBay Search Engine Report this Post to the Staff
A Starlit Party Monk New Member Denmark 3 Posts	Posted 12/30/2015 09:44 am Thank you :D Report this Post to the Staff
Finn235 Pillar of the Community United States 6130 Posts	Posted 12/30/2015 11:03 am I'd put money on it that this is a jewler's imitation. Not dismissing the possibility outright that it may be genuine, but it doesn't sit right with me. I bet if you were to pop it out of the ring (NOT saying you should!!) The other side would probably be blank. Still, given the other jewelry in what was given to you, this is probably real gold at least. Report this Post to the Staff
Kamnaskires Pillar of the Community United States 7066 Posts	Posted 12/30/2015 11:11 am Quote: I'd put money on it that this is a jewler's imitation. Welcome to the board, ASPM. Unfortunately the coin is almost certainly of modern manufacture, probably produced not long before your family acquired it. You're correct that the type it imitates has Herakles wearing the lion skin. These issues were struck in silver and bronze, not gold. Furthermore the style is quite a bit off on your example. Even though styles ranged quite a bit over the long span that these coins were struck, yours is unlike any I've ever seen, what with the lion's mane wrapping under the chin and some oddities about the facial features. Fyi, the Herakles/lion skin types are perhaps the most commonly faked of ancients, and the combination of stylistic problems and the wrong metal are enough to condemn this one, unfortunately. Report this Post to the Staff
echizento Moderator United States 23731 Posts	Posted 12/30/2015 1:50 pm to the community Sorry I have to agree with the others, this is no doubt a modern copy of what would appear to be an Alexander III drachm. Report this Post to the Staff
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