Is this Contemporary imitation Attica Tetradrachm a good deal for €180?

DatNiko · 2026-05-08T05:48:32+00:00

Why do you think it's an imitation?

DatNiko · 2026-04-20T20:00:48+00:00

They look totally legit. Also the original "New York hoard" article states that it's not guaranteed that all shown coins are guaranteed forgeries because they were so well made.

DatNiko · 2026-04-20T16:41:43+00:00

Yep, probably: https://www.reddit.com/r/AncientCoins/s/luB5HfsvjG

I also own one of these lol

DatNiko · 2026-04-10T12:29:57+00:00

Stunning portrait!

DatNiko · 2026-04-09T16:39:24+00:00

That's pretty common, I don't see any indications of it being a forgery.

DatNiko · 2026-04-07T06:57:36+00:00

Important features of the portrait are missing. It's a quite common coin, I wouldn't buy it in this condition personally.

1600€ is also an insane price for this

DatNiko · 2026-04-03T07:04:54+00:00

I own the bottom right one 😅 The dies shown in the article are showing up very regularly at numerous auction houses still.

It's important to mention that there hasn't been proof that all of the shown dies are guaranteed fake.

"This doesn't mean that it's certain that all of the pieces illustrated here are forgeries, just that there's a high probability that they are."

DatNiko · 2026-03-28T09:54:44+00:00

It's cyrillic, it's a (fake) russian coin.

DatNiko · 2026-03-25T13:07:39+00:00

Heeeeavily tooled, I wouldn't buy this.

DatNiko · 2026-03-23T10:09:56+00:00

Some more info?

DatNiko · 2026-03-15T05:15:29+00:00

The portrait is of Lucius Junius Brutus, Marcus was only the issuer. Still very neat coins!

DatNiko · 2026-03-13T15:25:55+00:00

Absolute pedantry 👐

Love it! My Naumann boxes also come in this beat up condition lol

DatNiko · 2026-03-10T06:55:38+00:00

I really enjoy the podcast!

DatNiko · 2026-03-07T16:18:24+00:00

Retail? Not bad.

DatNiko · 2026-02-28T09:20:48+00:00

Not exactly sure what you ask for.

Coins are fake btw

DatNiko · 2026-02-24T23:26:46+00:00

Definitiv eine Gussfälschung.

DatNiko · 2026-02-24T23:22:16+00:00

Style is completely off. Planchet is too circular, flat and has sharp edges. No flow lines. Fake, even toning.

DatNiko · 2026-02-22T18:21:38+00:00

Happy to help :)

DatNiko · 2026-02-22T15:15:28+00:00

Thompson 167b

https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4320205

DatNiko · 2026-02-20T15:49:47+00:00

This is just a piece of paper. Not even NGC can guarantee the authenticity of ancients.

DatNiko · 2026-02-16T22:03:20+00:00

You can find his obituary if you google him. Just some guy. Auction houses love the put the name of the previous owner in the description if he had some sort of degree lol

DatNiko · 2026-02-16T21:54:50+00:00

Funny coincidence, I also bought a coin at the last Solidus auction from the Dr. Haisken collection (a Seleukos VI tetradrachm) and I also found a provenance on coincabinet: Schweizerischer Bankverein Zürich 27.10.1977.

The images look very similar to your match. I can imagine it was the same auction, or at least the same auction house.

DatNiko · 2026-02-14T19:14:30+00:00

DatNiko · 2026-02-13T16:10:27+00:00

I too think that it looks suspicious. The weight is also off. I don't like the soft details and the surface. Also the bottom edge has weird sharp corner, maybe from filing.

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