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Not sure if this belongs in this forum or not (also posted in obsolete world coins so please move or delete this post if need be), but I wanted to get some thoughts on a strange coin I found in a penny roll this morning. Looks like something a person metal detecting might find. The first picture is the obverse and reverse from my digital camera, and the second picture is a high resolution scan of the obverse and reverse. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Nick

Digital Camera



High Resolution Scan

Just a quick look at it I would say it is Roman or Greek empire. I would lean more to the Roman empire, but I can't say for sure.

Nice find though.

could be a silver Roman coin

Looks a little like Mitt Romney

Ok,

Given the text that can be seen and the styling of the head, I would say it is Roman, from probably around the same time as this example: http://www.google.com/imgres?q=ancient+roman+coins&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=9TG&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&biw=1366&bih=587&tbm=isch&tbnid=EyMRm7X8i1M9FM:&imgrefurl=http://www.ioffer.com/si/roman%2Bcoins%3Fall%3Dtrue%26page%3D8%26view%3D0&docid=k4vx51l0COQy_M&imgurl=http://cdn1.iofferphoto.com/img/item/194/884/992/Rd33.jpg&w=553&h=554&ei=nnEqT-q2JaagsQLWurXFDg&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=239&vpy=110&dur=3666&hovh=225&hovw=224&tx=123&ty=84&sig=114028339183552583076&page=6&tbnh=130&tbnw=130&start=133&ndsp=28&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:133

If you look at the text on the outside of the coin they are the same, so it's definitely Roman... It doesn't look like they go for very high prices, I would keep it as a conversation piece myself.

Good luck.

Could also be fake. In Ephesus I was offered fake Roman coins that looked really old. One guy told me they feed the coins to animals and then sift them out of the discharge to give the coins a well used beat up look. Not sure if that is how the destressing is really done, but the coins sure looked old.

JadeDragon wrote:Could also be fake. In Ephesus I was offered fake Roman coins that looked really old. One guy told me they feed the coins to animals and then sift them out of the discharge to give the coins a well used beat up look

yes always smell your coins to see if they are real or not.

anyone with al bundy as an avatar truly belongs in this forum!! GL with the coin.