%0 Journal Article %T Forgeries of Hellenistic bronze coins of Ithaca %A Dowler, Amelia; Perucchetti, Laura %C London %D 2020 %8 2022-05-25 %I Royal Numismatic Society %J Numismatic Chronicle %V 180 %7 %P 13-19 %@ %X This article examines the stylistic and metal composition differences between two variants of the bronze Odysseus/Cock type from Ithaca. It posits that Variant 2 is a forgery, which must have been produced after the Hellenistic period but before the end of the 19th century. It also identifies a historic substitution of a Variant 2 coin for a Variant 1 coin in the British Museum collection. %G English %[ 2024-03-28 %9 Journal article %~ Hyku %W British Museum