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Valued Member
Netherlands
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Can someone help me with this one. Think its a obool with a turtle on the front.   Edited by Slavisa
09/21/2011 4:47 pm
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Valued Member
United States
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Can you make it any smaller? The pictures are too big! =P
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Valued Member
 Netherlands
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Valued Member
United States
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After you scan the coin, but before you shrink the picture, you need to crop the picture in around the coin. After you crop (drop the white space), then shrink the pic down to a size which will upload here (< 100kb).
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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While I agree 1000% with the need for cropping (crop using the scan software and set the resolution to a higher number so the picture of the coin is 400-600 pixels across), the coin is from the Greek island of Aigina. It is too small to tell which date (3rd to 5th century BC) period it is or whether it is genuine (fakes exist).
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Valued Member
Netherlands
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thnx I will upload a bigger image
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Valued Member
Netherlands
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Aigana is that modern albania
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I believe this is a modern fake matching this one: http://www.forumancientcoins.com/fa...hp?pos=-2601I have never seen the pebbled reverse on a real Aigina. The head is a stick figure compared to the normal lump and the dots on the shell are much higher than usual so the overall look is not right. Finding a match on a list of known fakes is a pretty bad sign as well. |
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Valued Member
Netherlands
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So you can say that it is 100 procent fake.
im just a beginning collector. so I dont understand everything.
But the link that you gave me tells that obools like this do excist.
Not from aigina but from asia minor.
And the one from the link that you send to me the one looks bigger and more heavy tham mine.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Please post a link showing the Asia Minor coin. Turtle obols certainly exist as do coins with the pebbled incuse reverse (Kalchedon with the bull obverse, e.g.). The question is them used together and the style of the turtle.
Aigina obols tend to weigh about 1g. which is a bit heavier than most obols which tend toward .7g.
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Valued Member
Netherlands
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The one I got weighs maybe between 1 gr or 2 cant tel for sure dont have a scale.
diam is 13
about I mm thik
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Posted 09/21/2011 12:46 pm
