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dar76124 Valued Member United States 403 Posts	Posted 12/14/2019 8:28 pm I found this in an old collection I purchased. I'm unsure it it's legit. Struck on a very thin planquet, weighs 5.6 grams. What do you think? Report this Post to the Staff

Numis-Northerner Pillar of the Community Canada 857 Posts	Posted 12/14/2019 10:08 pm Quite interesting indeed, looks legit to me. Report this Post to the Staff
GrapeCollects Pillar of the Community United States 8940 Posts	Posted 12/14/2019 10:14 pm Not so sure. It looks to be double struck with a partial obverse brockage. But notice the stuttered third strike on the left obverse field that can't be accounted for Report this Post to the Staff
Kingz Pillar of the Community Netherlands 626 Posts	Posted 12/23/2019 2:25 pm The date and design looks a bit off as well, appears a bit crude craftmanship.. Perhaps an older contemporary fake gone wrong? :P Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16874 Posts	Posted 12/23/2019 7:08 pm It's definitely not an officially minted halfpenny. It seems actually to be "triple-struck" - I can see the "1773" three times. Which also lends weight to the conterfeit hypothesis - a counterfeiter would be less careful about quality. I wouldn't think it to be a "mint sport" deliberately made by the counterfeiter to sell for profit; while collectors of tokens began to appear in the 1790s, nobody was really into collecting errors back then - an error was a "flawed coin" and worth less, not more, than a perfect error-free example. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
realeswatcher Pillar of the Community United States 1962 Posts	Posted 12/24/2019 01:16 am Wonderful contemporary counterfeit error! Report this Post to the Staff
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