Please Help Identify This Ancient Coin !

[buddysells]

Can anyone help identify this coin ? I had the metal tested and it showed bronze,tin and copper. Please Help !
It is about the size of a U.S. Quarter.

 

[Mackaydon]

Yes, in the style of Alex. III (the Great); like this: CoinArchives.com Lot Viewer
Welcome to Treasure Net !!
How did you come across this item?
Don.....

 

[CRUSADER]

Yes, in the style of Alex. III (the Great); like this: CoinArchives.com Lot Viewer
Welcome to Treasure Net !!
How did you come across this item?
Don.....

I know very little about this type, but I thought they were all silver? or did they do any Bronze?

Buddysells:
Size & weight please?

 

[buddysells]

Hello and Thanks everyone. This coin weighs .3oz and is slightly smaller than a US quarter.

 

[buddysells]

Thanks Don. This coin was rejected along with thousands of other damaged/foreign coins through a coin counter.I was pretty excited to find it.I am hoping to get some sort of value here and will be bringing it to a local coin show next month.Buddy

 

[hamiddetecting]

I think its of remain coin. Great find.

 

[Mackaydon]

CRU,
I've seen bronze coins with this image for sale (Gold Ring with Bronze Coin of Alexander the Great - MT.255 For Sale | Antiques.com | Classifieds) but whether or not the advertised 'coin' is real or not, I have no idea. In my first response I wrote it was 'in the style of'--leaving open the possibility that it was other than a real coin. I, too, am familiar with only silver and gold coins with that image.
Don...

 

[Silver Searcher]

I know very little about this type, but I thought they were all silver? or did they do any Bronze?

Buddysells:
Size & weight please?

Yes there were bronze issues, but this looks like a copy of a AR Tetradrachm.

SS

 

[cuzcosquirrel]

The style of the bust and back says it is trying to be a tetradrachm of Alexander the Great. They were made of silver. There are smaller Macedonian bronze denominations, but the front and back look different.

 

[kane23]

Hate to tell you this buddy, but your coin is a modern copy of an Alexander the great Tetradrachm, better luck next time.

 

[buddysells]

Kane, I appreciate your opinion but why do you think it is modern ? Anyone else please respond on this also. Buddy

 

[Silver Searcher]

Kane, I appreciate your opinion but why do you think it is modern ? Anyone else please respond on this also. Buddy

Because the reverse...Zeus seated left, is a common reverse for a Silver Tetradrachm, not a bronze unit.

SS

 

[CRUSADER]

Kane, I appreciate your opinion but why do you think it is modern ? Anyone else please respond on this also. Buddy

It's the first one I didn't want to jump the gun, but thought I knew the answer. Its a pretty convincing copy but in the wrong metal.

 

[cuzcosquirrel]

I think it's modern because there was a period on the 2000's where jewelry with real or replica ancient coins was quite popular, and a lot of this material will be surfacing in the next 10 years in different ways.

 

[kane23]

Kane, I appreciate your opinion but why do you think it is modern ? Anyone else please respond on this also. Buddy

the color is wrong, the weight is to light, the greek letters say alexander but the style has many dfference fron a real coin.

 

[Joe88]

I agree... it really does not look anything like the picture shown in coinarchives.com
Still a cool find, though.

Joe

 

[buddysells]

Thanks everyone for contributing. I will be looking for offers when I visit my local coin show next month. I will follow up then. Buddy

 

[CAESAR]

it is a copy of alexander coin, probably a souvenir from a visit Mediterranean (Greece, Turkey)
nice to see that when making a coin cast in a mold and not malleable

 

[oldsalty19]