🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Please help identify this coin?!

[Amanda0383]

 

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[Mdpartner]

Is that gold?

Picture of the other side?

 

[EKG]

Looks to me you have to look into old coins from Israel

 

[Red-Coat]

Interesting find.

It appears to be a modern loose ‘copy’ of an ancient coin of Judaea. I can’t find an exact match to the obverse/reverse combination, but compare to this bronze quarter shekel from the first Jewish War, dated between AD 66 – AD 70 (being offered at almost $5,000):

I suspect that the emblems have been copied from an authentic coin which was sufficiently worn that the copyist didn’t know what the depictions were. That one actually shows an etrog fruit (citron). The other side has two lulavim (date palm) branches side by side, although they look nothing like the two amorphous blobs on your coin. Further searching might turn up another coin of the period that has emblems with a greater resemblance to those blobs.

 

[Mackaydon]

The (authentic) coin was minted at the Jerusalem Mint. The wording on the obverse is SH'NAT ARBA REVA (year four, quarter) and on the reverse is written L'GEULAT ZION (for the redemption of Zion); both in paleo-Hebrew script.
Don in SoCal.

 

[Amanda0383]

The (authentic) coin was minted at the Jerusalem Mint. The wording on the obverse is SH'NAT ARBA REVA (year four, quarter) and on the reverse is written L'GEULAT ZION (for the redemption of Zion); both in paleo-Hebrew script.
Don in SoCal.

So mine is most likely a copy?

 

[Red-Coat]

So mine is most likely a copy?

Yes, but a modern and not very good copy... more in the territory of 'imitation, inspired by...'

I would think it probably came from a souvenir shop.

 

[Amanda0383]

Yes, but a modern and not very good copy... more in the territory of 'imitation, inspired by...'

I would think it probably came from a souvenir shop.

Man, I thought I had found something really good here for a minute! Thanks so much for the info!!