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Ancient Greek Owl Aoe Athena Coin CA 300-400 Bc? Modern Repro? Real?

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 Posted 10/10/2020  4:13 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Cointosser77 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Not sure if this is real or not as I never had anything like this in my hands.

Any help identifying it and if it is real or not is greatly appreciated!

It appears to be made of silver, it got and owl, and what looks like Athena and AOE.

Here are some photos:
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Some photos of the edge:
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Ancient-Greek-Owl-Aoe-Athena-Coin-CA-300-400-Bc?-Modern-Repro?-Real?
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Ok I assume this is a tourist copy or something else fake as I read about seem edges being signs of modern reproductions and it does seem to have a pointy seemlike edge
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@ct, can you please add a pic of the edge to this thread? Thx.

Added: I agree that it might be cast, but having an edge pic could help confirm.
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It's not a genuine example IMO.
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I have added 2 photos of the edge now
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That line in the middle of the edge is caused by the piece being cast and is a sign that the coin is not genuine.
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Yes that is a parting line from being cast. Sorry about that. Can you please share where you picked this up?
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I don't remember when I bought it, it was bought in England, basically rediscovered it going through some old boxes with coins I forgot about, I have some more I need to post although not much ancient Greek there, plenty 20th century Greek though...
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