Ancient Greek Coins

[Guest Phil]

I have a friend in Greece who has just inherited a quantity of ancient greek coins and ss he doesn't speak very good English I have agreed to help try to find out more about these for him.

I have done some traling of the net and they seem to be kinds tetradrachm dating from around 450BC

I have addedc them to the gallery on this site in an album called "Ancient Greek Coins"

Can anyone help with -

1. Identification
   
2. How to go about authentification
   
3. Possible value
   
4. Avenues of sale
   

He has 15 of the bottom left picture,5 of the bottom right and 22 of the top

Hope someone can hellp

[Chris Perkins]

Here's a link to the gallery:

http://www.predecimal.com/forum/index.php?...=si&img=495

I'm no Greek expert, but they look cast to me, i.e. more modern fakes. And the quantities of each one would also suggest they are fakes. Real ones don't usually turn up that are the same in multiples of 22! I'd say that if all the like coins are practically identical (in terms of shape, size etc) then they are all reproductions.

[scottishmoney]

There are some very dangerous(convincing) forgeries that are coming out of Bulgaria these days, there are well known and documented makers of them continuing to crank out Athenian tets, Macedonian coinage, Thracian coinage etc. I would check out wildwinds.com to research these further.