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Can You Help Me Identifying These Coins? | Fantasy / Replica

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 Posted 04/17/2010  1:38 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add heahmad to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Can you help me identifying these coins?

I have been searching the internet for any small clue but cannot find anything.

Can you help me identifying these coins?

http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/...21994983.jpg

thank you.

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 Posted 04/17/2010  7:13 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add pls to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Strike me down if I'm wrong, but the first five look like fantasy "reproductions" to me.
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 Posted 04/17/2010  8:32 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add bobbyhelmet to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The first one could be Antonia - the daughter of Mark Antony?

Second looks Greek and the third is def Greek.

I would however agree with pls in that at least 2 of them look like reproductions to me.

Will see if I can find a bit more info on them.
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 Posted 04/17/2010  8:46 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Americanamafia to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
middle two look like reproductions to me (does anyone else see casting on the edges?)
The bottom right looks legit to me.
What is the metal of them, put a magnet on them. We might be able to help you out more if we knew that.
The two on the right look like polished bronze with artificial patina... just my 2c

Where did you get them?

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I agree the middle one looks to be cast.

The first one is quite good but I cant find its legend anywhere - I think its prob either made up or a copy thats been poorly researched.

The third looks very convincing but I think the metal is wrong - I think your right that at some point its had a different patina that has wore off revealing the base metal below.

If these have all come from the same source then I think they can all be written off a fakes or reproductions. If they have come from different sources then maybe they deserve more research.

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 Posted 04/18/2010  12:01 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
There are only three coins there. The pics in the top row match up with the pics in the bottom row. Nevertheless, I believe pls is sadly correct - all three coins are fantasies/reproductions. They're all supposed to be either silver or gold, for starters, and none of these look silver.

#1 on the left is a fantasy with designs taken from two different coins. The obverse legend is all mixed up, but appears to be a young emperor Caracalla. The reverse is taken from a gold coin of Maximianus, a much later emperor.

Coin #2 (in the middle) is a very bad copy of an ancient Greek tetradrachm or decadrachm of Syracuse; these coins are widely regarded as among the most beautiful in the ancient Greek series and are therefore widely copied. the angelic Victory overhead seems to have disappeared from yours entirely.

Coin #3 is a copy of a tetradrachm of the Seleucid king Demetrius I..
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 Posted 04/18/2010  02:00 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add heahmad to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Wow ,,,
thank you for all the reply.
now I know that these coin are fake :(
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