coin ID help needed - Roman, Macedonian?

[LarsDubai]

Gentlemen, my very close and old friend travels a lot in his work to very remote areas in the world and has come by some interesting coins by chance. He's not a coin collector but a philatelist btw. The most intriguing coin is a terracotta coin he received when visiting relatives to his (now) ex-wife in Turkey, close to the Iranian border. It presumably shows pics of Alexander the Great and his father on the same side. Can it be real? And what are the other coins? Also picked up on travels in the ME.

 

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[david680]

I can't help you in anyway on ID's, don't know squat about ancients, however, if real those are some excellent looking examples.

 

[villagenut]

Would be better if you numbered them or post only a few at a time. All should be easy to ID though.

 

[Mackaydon]

Last coin (if it were real--and I don't know one way or the other) is sometimes referred to as Compania Neopolis didrachm c300-c275 BC.
Diademed head of nymph left with pendant earring; Man-headed bull walking right being crowned by Nike.
Don...

 

[LarsDubai]

They are front/ backside from top to bottom

 

[Mackaydon]

The 'dark' coin is:

OBVERSE	GALVAL-ERIAAVG [GAL VALERIA AVG]; bust r., diad., dr.
REVERSE	VENERIV-ICTRICI [VENERI VICTRICI]; Venus stg. facing, head l., r. holding up apple, l. raising drapery over l. shoulder. Δ in left field, • [dot] in right field. MKV (or some other letters) in exergue.

as shown here:

Don......( I don't venture into the area of "Is is real, or not.")

 

[Mackaydon]

Turn the middle coin above the dark coin 180 degrees and you'll see it's a standing owl. That owl is referred to as the Owl of Minerva or the Owl of Athena. The inscription "ΑΘΕ" is an abbreviation of ΑΘΗΝΑΙΟΝ, which may be translated as "of the Athenians".
Don....
PS: About 480-420 BC for a date range.

 

[LarsDubai]

Thanks a lot guys!

 

[Mackaydon]

Regarding your 'dark' coin, if you search on the site noted below, you may be able to match the mint location for your coin. To do so, you can match the letters/images to the left and right of the standing figure AND/OR discern the mint abbrev. in the exergue; neither of which these old eyes of mine could define.
Don....
http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/galeria_valeria/t.html

 

[LarsDubai]

Thanks, we will dive into this later today! A specialist at the Numismatic Museum in Sweden had an idea that the terracotta "coin" (the first one) could be a token that was used in Alexander the Great's army to pay for goods from army stores. Alexander's army was, according to him, one of the first to have a supply column moving along and that tokens were issued to soldiers instead of real coins etc to pay for those supplies, or "extras". Like PX tokens that are used in many armies overseas today. If that's so and it's real, it would be fantastic, according to this specialist. He had never seen anything like it, just heard of it.

We will follow up on this and also try to get some kind of verification if they are real or not.

 

[sutphin]

DOES YOUR NAME SAY LARS, I THOUGHT YOU WERE THE DRUMMER FOR METALICA NOW WHEN DID YOU TAKE DETECTING UP FOR A HOBBY AND FIND A NICE SET OF COINS. VANZUTPHEN