Help with alleged Ancient Greek coin

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Hi,

 

I’m wondering if I could get some help woth this coin a friend has. I cane across this site when trying to link it with an existing coin. I have tried going through all the ancient greek coins extensi and not been able to find an exact match, some are very similar but not close enough to call a match.

The face has what looks like a womans face? Could also be male facing right and the reverse has what I assume is an Owl as it’s the closest match I could see from looking through the coins. There are no other distinguishable markings from what I can tell.

To be honest I’m unsure if it’s even a real coin after going through the collection on here and I’m starting to lean towards it being a fake of sorts as I don’t think it has the quality of work that I’ve seen with other coins as far as the Owl is concerned.

Anyway, I’ve attached images and any help would be much appreciated.

Thank you in advance!
P.S I hope the images are clear enough. If needed I can try and find a ruler to take pictures with and a in a better setting

As far as I can tell it's a crude imitation of an athenian owl. In my opinion a tourist souvenir: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/index.php?e=athens&r=owl&ct=coin&im1=&im2=&tb=y&tc=y&tn=y&tp=y&tt=y&cat=y&ru=&ca=3&no=&v=&i=&b=&d=&u=&a=&dg=&m=&f=&t=&w=&mt=&g=&se=&c=&wi=&sw=

I collect and deal in ancient Roman coin. In case you're looking for affordable ancient coins or need any help with the coins you already have send me a message.

Hello, this is a very bad imitation of an Athenian tetradrachm

 

Cordially

Esculape

 It is as I suspected. Thank you for your help.

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