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Unknown--to me anyway!- coin
approx 30mm across.



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 Posted 03/31/2009  9:21 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I'm afraid this one might be fake, too, like the ones in your other thread - the reverse has that fuzzy look, with detail fading into the background, that's commonly seen on cast tourist fakes.

The reverse inscription reads (rather blurrily) BASILIWS ANTIOCHOU EPIPhANES - probably King Antiochus IV Epiphanes, the notorious Seleucid king who attempted to wipe out Judaism. His coins are very popular targets for the makers of tourist fakes.
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Thanks Sap--three for the bin!
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I agree cast copy.
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