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- ID: 290
Submitter: Jean-Luc
Added: 1998-02-25
CRETE. Elyros.
AR-Drachm struck in bronze.
Av.: Head of cretian goat, beneath, arrow head.
Rv.: Bee, seen from above.
6,29 g. c. 21 mm.
Ref.: BMC Crete 1-2, pl. 8,5.
BoC: 20/1, 1995, p. 26.
FAKE – It is more common to find a bronze coin type struck in silver than the opposite. This counterfeit is a bronze version of the silver drachms of Elyros. It is struck on a thick planchet with extremely sharp edges. No bronze coins of Elyros are recorded in BMC or by Svoronos.