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Hello.....Would you please identify to me this coin ...is it real one ...What is the value

Would you please identify to me this coin ...is it real one ...What is the   value....Thank you

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  • Hello!

    From the photos, your coin looks like an antique greek-macedonean gold coin (probably a stater). Besides this,one coin's sides looks like severely damaged in circulation or by man's hand. But...all these are from photos. 

    To know something for sure,we need:

    1) accurate weight of the coin.

    2) that you ask,at a jeweler's shop,if your coin is made of real gold or not! Your coin may be genuine or a copy/fake. If you'll find out it's real gold made,then your coin is 100% authentic. If the coin is just gold plated(?),then it is 100% a copy of almost no value.

    In order to tell you possible collectable value,please come back to us with the jeweler's answer + a macro photo of the coin's side opposite to that with a head (Alexander Macedon,probably) + the coin's weight. 

    Andi👋

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      Andi Pasculescu 

      Thank you for your reply

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  • Hi FL --

    Here's what a genuine one looks like. Your coin is faithful to the inscriptions and pattern, but is smashed in several ways, probably post-mint damage and gold harvesting by a crook. Your coin looks genuine, but smashed, to me. Andi's gold test is super-important. Use a non-destructive test (e.g., an XRF machine).

    Here's the auction description for the one in my picture. Yours is probably worth 1/4 of this one due to its smash-ness!

    Roma Numismatics Ltd > Auction XX    Auction date: 29 October 2020
    Lot number: 305

    Price realized: 11,000 GBP   (Approx. 14,195 USD / 12,174 EUR / 13,013 CHF) 

    Seleukid Empire, Antiochos I Soter AV Stater. Aï Khanoum, circa 266-261 BC. Diademed head of Antiochos I to right, with elderly features / Apollo Delphios, nude, seated to left on omphalos, testing arrow in his right hand, left hand holding tip of bow set on ground to right; BAΣIΛEΩΣ to right, ANTIOXOY to left, ∆ to inner left. SC 435.3; ESM 703; HGC 9, 122. 8.49g, 18mm, 6h.

    Mint State; lustrous fields. Extremely Rare.

    From a private English collection.

    Estimate: 15000 GBP

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      Paul Richards 

      Very interested  information...I appreciated too much 

      My regards

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