Ancient coin ? (Updated! more pics)

[history hunter]

I found this coin while metal detecting when I was a kid. I thought it was fake until I brought it to a coin show and a dealer said it was not necessarily fake. I was wondering if anyone knew anything about it?

 

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[traderoftreasures]

well i'll be a monkey's great, great, great grandson. thanks

 

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[Bigcypresshunter]

well i'll be a monkey's great, great, great grandson. thanks

I think johnnyi was the first person to post that link on first page reply26. I searched for the uprooted palm but didnt see it. Maybe I missed it I dunno. Its a good link.

Look on the bottom of this page for some similar. (posted by johnnyi) http://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/thumbnails.php?album=10&page=5

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

The coin/fob in the pic you are talking about does not have a brass ring in the hole like mine, that is a little strange.

Yes yours is different. But it still could be a watch fob like the ones I posted earlier. Here is a pic of vest chains from my Sears book. It looks like this type of attachment on the Maine coin.

 

[IronSpike]

The coin/fob in the pic you are talking about does not have a brass ring in the hole like mine, that is a little strange.

Yes yours is different. But it still could be a watch fob like the ones I posted earlier. Here is a pic of vest chains from my Sears book. It looks like this type of attachment on the Maine coin.

Good point and observation on the vest chain. It places item in same era 'turn of the century'.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Some recent new evidence has surfaced in Connecticut. http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php?topic=276615.msg1972509#msg1972509 This can only happen at TreasureNet.

 

[mojjax]

Utterly Amazing

 

[IronSpike]

Two Banner coins

 

[history hunter]

Thanks for the banner votes, it would be nice to make the banner.

 

[Little finder]

you must have been younger than me when you found this! Nice old coin
Little finder

Banner!!

 

[trikikiwi]

Is it just me, or is there some similarity here ?



Item #: anim19. Horse Head. 4 compartment locket with chain or bowpin. Circa 1880's. Price $50

http://www.antiquewear.com/invanim.htm

5th item down.

Mike

 

[IronSpike]

Is it just me, or is there some similarity here ?




Item #: anim19. Horse Head. 4 compartment locket with chain or bowpin. Circa 1880's. Price $50

http://www.antiquewear.com/invanim.htm

5th item down.

Mike

If the locket showed the other side of the coin inside the lid it could have been from one. I think time frame about right.

 

[traderoftreasures]

more on the same mystery/ different book? http://www.teosofia.com/Docs/vol-3-10-supplement.pdf

 

[IronSpike]

Here's one like it:

http://www.numisology.com/Greek.htm

Zuegatania AE 32
—struck by an anonymous 19th century forger
Carthage

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Here's one like it:

http://www.numisology.com/Greek.htm

Zuegatania AE 32
—struck by an anonymous 19th century forger
Carthage

Thats another good worn example of this 19th century fantasy/forgery. Im posting it here for the record. I wonder what state it was found/purchased in?

 

[HISPAN]

Re: Ancient coin ?

Happy to see the American educational brainwashing is still working strong lol.
What's so hard to believe that Columbus wasn't the first "outsider" to find North America? The Vikings did it 300 years before Columbus,and the Phoenicians certainly had the ships and knowledge to make it easily a thousand years or so before the vikings!
2 or 3 professor's,some institution in Boston,and a coin expert/author all agree these coins are ancient...but maybe they don't have the benefit of your expertise?

Anyhow,the last statement recommending contacting the author IS a very good plan,one i'd recommend doing.It could be you have a two thousand year old coin and a genuine piece of pre-american history.

America discovered Spain in 1492 !

 

[Erik in NJ]

Re: Ancient coin ?

Don't worry H, they're still our favorite colony!!!

America discovered Spain in 1492 !

 

[RGINN]

For some reason I missed this topic when it was first posted, but as soon as the pic popped up I recognized the coin. I have Mrs. Farley's book, so I had seen the same thing in there. Got Barry Fell's 'America B.C.', too. I have been to a lot of the sites Gloria Farley went to and checked them out. I have seen some examples of 'alleged' Ogam writing. I have a suspicion that Fell operated sometimes on the principle of 'if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with BS'. I keep an open mind about pre-BC european visitors. I'm still waiting for their mortal remains to be found, cause surely someone died while over here. (I know, I know, many will say they have been found.) The advances in genetic and DNA research, along with Carbon-14 dating, could shed some light on the subject. I'm waiting for somebody to throw those lab dogs a bone.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

For some reason I missed this topic when it was first posted, but as soon as the pic popped up I recognized the coin. I have Mrs. Farley's book, so I had seen the same thing in there.

Im curious, are the coin pics better in the book? They are black & white and very poor quality in the link online.

 

[XL-PRO PRO]

Well, here we go again.I have a very similar coin(same horse-head with palm tree but no roots) definitley a silver/gold composition,minted on one side only with a microscopic mint mark(1 with wings) on the base of the smooth side.My coin was personally found on a mountain in Tenn. in the late 70's.At the time the only research source available was the local library where I did manage to locate an example in book on Greek coinage, published in 1955.It showed the same coin being minted in Carthage about 400bc and also showed the mintmark.It was listed as one of the earliest known minted coins and in 1955 was valued at $500.It was some years later before I noticed the mintmark(not visable to the naked eye)while examining the coin under a magnifier.All of the so-called experts I have contacted have never heard of this particular coin except one who told me it would be almost impossible for me to obtain.So,add another state to your list.Thanks DBULL

 

[Silver Searcher]

Well, here we go again.I have a very similar coin(same horse-head with palm tree but no roots) definitley a silver/gold composition,minted on one side only with a microscopic mint mark(1 with wings) on the base of the smooth side.My coin was personally found on a mountain in Tenn. in the late 70's.At the time the only research source available was the local library where I did manage to locate an example in book on Greek coinage, published in 1955.It showed the same coin being minted in Carthage about 400bc and also showed the mintmark.It was listed as one of the earliest known minted coins and in 1955 was valued at $500.It was some years later before I noticed the mintmark(not visable to the naked eye)while examining the coin under a magnifier.All of the so-called experts I have contacted have never heard of this particular coin except one who told me it would be almost impossible for me to obtain.So,add another state to your list.Thanks DBULL

Do you have any pictures of your coin.

SS