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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 9433321, member: 5833"]Quite possible it was made in both brass & gold. Yours definitely has an Egyptian assay mark that looks to me like 21K double struck. The karatage of Egyptian gold is not always an exact match for the assay mark, but have not previously seen a mark applied to something that wasn't gold at all. Museum replicas made to be gift shop items are sometimes made in 2 quality levels.</p><p><br /></p><p>The second one is brass. Think the little circles are dividers, not the letter O. For the rest, it's a very limited character set, if characters they are. I, X, V, T, H, & something that looks like a backward uppercase gamma. Like a cross between Greek letters & Roman numerals. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/confused.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 9433321, member: 5833"]Quite possible it was made in both brass & gold. Yours definitely has an Egyptian assay mark that looks to me like 21K double struck. The karatage of Egyptian gold is not always an exact match for the assay mark, but have not previously seen a mark applied to something that wasn't gold at all. Museum replicas made to be gift shop items are sometimes made in 2 quality levels. The second one is brass. Think the little circles are dividers, not the letter O. For the rest, it's a very limited character set, if characters they are. I, X, V, T, H, & something that looks like a backward uppercase gamma. Like a cross between Greek letters & Roman numerals. :confused:[/QUOTE]
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