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Need Help - Is this Greek Owl coin real?


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My father in-law brought over a bag of old coinage and this was in it - It looks like it made out of Brass -  When i look online I only see silver versions of this Greek coin - 

Does anyone know if real or a reproduction.

 

 

 

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Thanks all - Just found the coin on the Athenian Owl Replicas webpage - It appears my father in law got it when he visited the Museum in the 50's. 

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Metropolitan Museum of Art replica Classical Owl tetradrachm (9.6g).


This low-weight silver-plated brass cast replica was made for New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art and sold by the museum's gift shop in large numbers in the 1950s and 1960s. This specimen like all of these particular replicas has a center dimple on the obverse, an edge cut at 8 o'clock on the obverse and 6 o'clock on the reverse, and prominent casting pits. This replica, made before the U.S. Hobby Protection Act was passed in 1973, isn't marked with a "COPY" or similar countermark. It's often auctioned on eBay as an authentic coin, though in many cases, not all, it appears that the seller doesn't know it's a replica.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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