Gold Plated ¼ Stater Robinson Contemporary Counterfeit

Contemporary counterfeits of Macedonian-style fractional gold were produced throughout the eastern Mediterranean during the late Republican period, typically by plating a bronze core with a thin wash of gold sufficient to pass casual inspection in low-value transactions. The Robinson classification identifies a specific group of these, named after the scholar E.S.G. Robinson, who systematically documented plated fractional staters in the mid-twentieth century.

At 0.65g, this piece would have been detectable by any merchant with a balance scale.