In October 2016, several British tabloids published a photograph of a silver coin of uncertain size with a Greek inscription. The coin portrait depicts a gaunt draped bust resembling a so-called"Grey alien". Grey aliens are extraterrestrial humanoids associated with contemporary UFO mythology.

The source of the image is credited to the UFO web site mysteriousearth.net, where discovery of the coin is ascribed to a "group of people who worked on the renovation of a house in southernEgypt".

It is clearly a hoax. The lack of any attribution (weight, dimensions, date, image of the reverse, etc.) raises the level of suspicion to an astronomical level.

My first impression is that this was a real coin or medallion extensively tooled in order to turn the portrait of a ruler or deity into the likeness of an alien - like an elaborate "hobonickel"

A little research revealed that it's not even a real artifact, but a heavily retouched ("photoshopped") image of an actual Roman medallion in the famous collection of the Cabinet de Médaillesin Paris. The hoax was uncovered by computer scientist Ralf Bülow, as credited by author Jason Colavito on his web site.

The very rare original medallion depicts Dionysus, god of wine and abandon. The other side (technically the obverse) bears an idealized portrait of Antinous, the beloved young companion of theRoman emperor Hadrian.

To read the complete article, see:
CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series: Coins, Aliens and UFOs(www.coinweek.com/ancient-coins/coinweek-ancient-coin-series-coins-aliens-and-ufos/)

The digital trail led to a Brazilian UFO site, where I learned (thanks to good Portuguese translation on my web browser) that the hoax image came from DesignCrowd, an Australian graphic designcrowdsource web site.

Ken Bressett writes:

To read the earlier E-Sylum articles, see:
IMAGES OF ALIENS ON WEIRD COINS (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v19n42a30.html)
"UFO" JETON RESURFACES IN POPULAR MEDIA (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v19n10a19.html)

Could this fading star be the first evidence that other cosmic cultures were more than science fiction? That outreì idea was a hypothesis of last resort, but for the time being, we could notdismiss it.

"The star that stumped Boyajian -- now officially known as Boyajian's star and colloquially called Tabby's star -- has captivated astronomers and the general public alike. Like allgreat enigmas, it has generated a seemingly infinite number of possible solutions -- none of which wholly explain the curious observations. Whatever is responsible may lie outside the realm of knownastronomical phenomena.

To read the complete article, see:
IS BOYAJIAN'S STAR EVIDENCE OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL CIVILIZATIONS? (http://delanceyplace.com/view-archives.php?p=3319)