Please Identify This Coin! | Lysimachos Tourist Copy

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mZK New Member Bosnia and Herzegovina 4 Posts	Posted 03/27/2008 5:33 pm Hi, I have this coin. I do not know if it is worth anything or not and I hope that you who answer will be honest about its value as I do not know how to find out how much it is worth. Help! please if u know any thing (time, period, country) tell me . Image: OBA-small.jpg 26.32 KB Edited by Sap 03/30/2008 12:08 am Report this Post to the Staff

KurtS Pillar of the Community United States 5318 Posts	Posted 03/27/2008 7:16 pm My first impression is this could be a modern copy. The surface looks cast due to what appear to be small bubbles, but I could be wrong. I just wanted to give that opinion to see what the experienced collectors say. Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16831 Posts	Posted 03/27/2008 9:39 pm Sadly, I agree. The design appears to be copied off the silver and gold coins of King Lysimachos of Thrace, as shown on this page. At least, King Lysimachos is the guy named on the reverse. But bronze coins of this ruler don't look anything at all like that, and the jowly portrait looks nothing like the portrait of Alexander the Great which Lysimachos used on his coins. I suspect it's a modern "tourist copy", deliberately done in the wrong metal. 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
mZK New Member Bosnia and Herzegovina 4 Posts	Posted 03/29/2008 9:36 pm it's copy, unfortenutly I was hoping for something more.. but thx anyway. Report this Post to the Staff
mZK New Member Bosnia and Herzegovina 4 Posts	Posted 03/31/2008 3:03 pm i have some new information about this coin.. it is suspected to be digged in archaeological Stobi in Macedonia... Can it be true? Report this Post to the Staff
Victor Pillar of the Community United States 905 Posts	Posted 03/31/2008 3:29 pm "Can it be true?" Can you believe whoever is telling you this? Is it the same person that sold you the coin...they might be biased! Sure, your coin may have been found on a dig, but only because it was recently lost, or placed there. It is not unheard of for dishonest people to salt sites with fake coins. This coin is a modern copy, and not a very good one; and wherever it was found does not change that. Report this Post to the Staff
mZK New Member Bosnia and Herzegovina 4 Posts	Posted 03/31/2008 4:44 pm I see, I did't bought it.. I found it in my room under wooden flour.. before me here lived solider, how participated in digging.. so he claimed! Report this Post to the Staff
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