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Moj27 New Member Australia 7 Posts	Posted 12/09/2019 05:47 am Hello there. I was hoping for some advice and guidance please. I'm very new to collecting and recently at auction I made a purchase and this guy was a surprise amongst it all. Iv done a little research and please correct me if I'm wrong but Ancient Greek- Caria, Rhodes 280-295 bc. Obverse of Helios I'm having enough trouble with decimal coins, this I has thrown me. It's a little smaller then a 20c coin and weighs roughly 6.33g. So is this real or fake ? Thankyou to anyone that maybe able to help out, very much appreciated. Even if it's not real iv loves the history lesson . Report this Post to the Staff

Moj27 New Member Australia 7 Posts	Posted 12/09/2019 06:21 am Sorry I thought I had posted both sides Report this Post to the Staff
John K Valued Member United States 419 Posts	Posted 12/09/2019 08:44 am looks like a gold plated fake to me but I am no expert on ancients. Report this Post to the Staff
TNG Bedrock of the Community United States 10284 Posts	Posted 12/09/2019 11:24 am Looks like a souvenir to me. Report this Post to the Staff
echizento Moderator United States 23731 Posts	Posted 12/09/2019 5:58 pm A tourist fake. Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16834 Posts	Posted 12/09/2019 6:51 pm As you can tell from my avatar, I have a Rhodian silver coin of similar design. Genuine Rhodes didrachms and tetradrachms are quite thick, especially near the edge; you would have a hard time punching a hole through the edge of my coin, and you would probably destroy the coin in any attempt to do so, since silver becomes brittle as it ages, so that attempting to drill a deep hole though a 2300 year old silver coin will likely shatter it. They also weigh a lot more than 6 grams. If it's "about the size of an Australian 20¢ piece", then it's probably supposed to be a tetradrachm, which should weigh more like 13-14 grams. 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
Moj27 New Member Australia 7 Posts	Posted 12/17/2019 04:26 am Thankyou very much everyone and cheers Sap, I really appreciate the knowledge and explanation as to why. As I mentioned, I'm quite fresh in the collecting world and even though it's not the real deal she took me down a road of history that I'm now going to continue down. Thanks again guys. Report this Post to the Staff
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