A little nicer IRL, of course - big hefty thing which went for the riduculous low price of 3 euros.

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I usually collect only ancient coins, but I have these from years back and got them out of the drawer for a boardgame I will play tomorrow 😁

Baltic Empires by GMT

They're mainly Jan II Casimir of Poland-Lithuania, Gustav II Adolf of Sweden, Christina of Sweden from Riga, that sort of thing.

I'm actually partial to coins of Probus and especially Aurelian, I like the designs and I like the stories of the third century emperors.

@PugJesus Yes, looks like Wang Mang - perhaps this 40 Cash from 9-14 AD: en.numista.com/catalogue/piece

Afaik these were Electrum, and some of them look very light indeed. It should weigh something like 5g if it's and EL stater, which is of course well over what yours weighs.

It's definitely not gold, alas.

This weekend there's a chance that the person who told me it's a fake will be present, so I'll take it back to him and ask for elaboration. Thanks for the insights so far, has definitely helped!

There's not a single example of the AR unit on acsearch.info - and that has auction records going back decades. Which either means they're impossibly rare, or I am looking for the wrong thing, or it's indeed some sort of copy made to look very very genuine.

I mean, it could be either of those three. Or maybe the light is off and it's actually gold, but I am sure you'd notice the weight difference.

Exactly! I did find the design but only on AV units rather than AR units. The AR ones exist but they seem to be almost as rare if not rarer than the AV ones.

I still wonder how they got the incuse so correct if it's fake, that's not usually easy to do. AFAIK it was definitely struck, not cast, but the almost perfect centering is also suspect since most of the genuine ones are at least slightly off center at the least.

I do find it suspicious that it appears to be silver, but all coins I can find with that design seem to be gold. That could indicate that it's an electroplate or otherwise high-quality copy.

He only saw it in a cursory glance but then said it was an "official museum replica", but the more I study the coin the more I doubt it.

What did he say ... Why he said it was fake?

They should, most are produced by WRL and have a (tiny, but visible) WRL stamp somewhere. Can't find anything of the sort on here.

Not my area of expertise, but I see nothing out of the ordinary with this one. Post the edges perhaps? In my experience, museum replicas don't look much like the real thing, probably on purpose.

That said, I can't find this issue in silver on acsearch.info - do you have a more complete attribution I can check for?

Don t museum replica s have a mark to make sure you know it is a replica.

I can't help but fuck that's cool.

Classic rebel coinage, atrocious execution and strike :D