What's this antique coin?

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It looks like a rather poor copy of an Athenian 'Owl' tetradrachm. The portrait on the obverse is the goddess Athena.

The original coins were struck from silver as can be seen in this example from the British Museum collection:

Athenian Owl Tetradrachm

Image copyright © British Museum (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license)

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