| Item : 14058 | | Description |
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| Description : Ancient Greek Oriental Baktria - Fantasy Sophytes AV Stater | | Obv: Helmeted Head of Sophytes r.
Rev: Keyrikeion oriented vertically, Sophytes legend below |
| Authenticity: Forgery - Modern |
| Category : Ancient Greek Baktria - Coins | | Series Date: 315 - 305 |
| Category Details | | Source |
| Category : Ancient | | Sold as: Authentic Seller ID: Roma Numismatics |
| : Greek Oriental | | Source : Purportedly from tto come from the mysterious treasure Of Aqtcha informed by the "man of Peshawar", it apeared in Roma Numismatics 2 (2 Oct. 2011), Lot 366. Entered by : lwht |
| : Baktria | | https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1099264 |
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| | Weight : 8.58 Catalog Weight: 8.60 |
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| | Purportedly to come from the equally mysterious treasure Of Aqtcha informed by the "man of Peshawar" it was exhibited at Musée Archéologique Henri Prades – Lattes, April-August 2003, this unique coin was condemned by Francois de Callatay¨ in his analysis Pourquoi le «distate`re en or au portrait d’Alexandre»
est tre`s probablement un faux moderne in Revue Numismatique 2013 (Vol. 170)
Summary – The recent publication of the proceedings of the conference held in 2007 concerning the unique gold “distater” with the portrait of Alexander the Great (Holt, BopearaCHCHi 2011), including the eagerly awaited metal analyses, combined with the appearance of a critical review of that book (BraCey 2011), invites reconsideration of the problem by adding some new arguments, classified in decreasing order of their power of conviction. Out of the 17 presented arguments, two seem to us to create an impossibility while nine others make it unlikely that the piece could be genuine. In addition, reasons are given why the gold stater of Sophytes is surely a fake. Forgery Type: Unique Fantasy Coin |
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