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Fake Walking Liberty Half?

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 Posted 12/20/2009  04:19 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add zzzAg to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Does anyone have an idea of what I have here? I bought this on the ebay as a drilled and filled Walking Liberty half. It looked a lot darker before I cleaned it. It was described as having some gold toning. When I received it it just didn't look right. So I put some tarn-X on it and ... presto. What the heck is this? Could this be a chinese knock-off with the silver plating worn off? Why would anyone go through the trouble of drilling and filling a fake half dollar? Seems like a lot of work to make a 6.00 coin.


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 Posted 12/20/2009  04:43 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coinguybrian to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
gold plated then messed with? wow that looks weird
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 Posted 12/20/2009  12:19 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add SsuperDdave to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Heck of a thing to do to a nice low-mintage coin.

I wonder if it was a jewelery piece at one time, or maybe a button?
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 Posted 12/20/2009  10:54 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Terror Of Zanarkand to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Ouch that poor thing! I'm not sure what happened to it, but it's a shame that it did. Probably a former jewelry piece.
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I am betting it was a watch at one time
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thanks for your responses.
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