kevikens Posted May 6 · Member Share Posted May 6 I purchased this coin some years back from a junk box at a coin shop. It looked vaguely familiar, perhaps a Roman denarius but I never could properly attribute it so I put it into my "Black Cabinet" of possible fakes. More recently, with a good glass I detected what looked like Greek letters on the reverse. From about one o'clock on the obverse appears to be the common BASILEOS for king and at 11 o'clock appear the last two letters XXXXOU. On the obverse, obviously Athena in a Corinthian style helmet, I can detect no writing but there does seem to be some kind of small image (an owl?) behind her head. The reverse image may be some form of Nike, but is not the same as the Nike found on the typical gold stater of the period. The coin seems to be made of silver, with some crystallization here and there. I have done nothing to its surfaces. That's how it came out of the box. The diameter is about 18.5 mm and the weight is 3.8 grams. Any help on its attribution would be welcome and perhaps it does need to go back to the black cabinet. Thanks for taking a look. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambr0zie Posted May 6 · Member Share Posted May 6 Something like this (I said like, not 100% match as the control marks look different) https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=433861 But in my opinion this coin is not genuine as the style is strange. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevikens Posted May 6 · Member Author Share Posted May 6 1 hour ago, ambr0zie said: Something like this (I said like, not 100% match as the control marks look different) https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=433861 But in my opinion this coin is not genuine as the style is strange. It may wind up back in the black cabinet but what you provided me has given me the task of exploring this more as I was not certain that any silver coins, drachmas of this style were, indeed struck in silver or that something similar had been struck. Should that rabbit hole I will have you to thank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevikens Posted May 7 · Member Author Share Posted May 7 Possibly a silver drachm of Amyntas, King of the Galatians. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nikodeimos Posted May 12 · Member Share Posted May 12 Copying a gold stater of Pyrrhos, like this: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8266407 Apparently Becker already made forgeries of those in silver, and several other forgeries (or electrotypes) in silver can be found on acsearch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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