Counterfeit Csa Quarter Eagle.

I'm going to get a clearer picture of the reverse. This was taken under white LED.
I'll try my warm LED.

The front looks like a round cake of dirt with cracks.

Why yes, yes it does.

Thanks Rackster!

I need to get a better pic tonight of the reverse. It is a fairly light metal..possibly tin.
I would love to do a metallurgical analysis of it to know for sure :-)

If it's a "game counter", then why bother to put an eagle similar to that of a period quarter eagle Coin on its reverse with United States of America plus gold plating? Anyone who knows about the US Civil war will concede that the South were much more poor than the North. So how did they do this? Asking your opinion.

Like I said. Same size as $2.50
Just can't tell if it says denomination.

Huge numbers of gaming tokens imitating real gold coins were produced in the late 19th century. Made the game a little more exciting, I imagine. This was mainly a European fad, with the token-makers largely based in Birmingham, England and Nuremberg, Germany. To avoid any possible accusation of counterfeiting, they would imitate obsolete coinage, like the "spade guinea" of George III, and substitute their own legends. Or copy foreign gold, like the brass South African Kruger pound token found on a Scottish beach that was lately posted in the Unidentified forum. Seems some counters mimicking US quarter eagles were made in Nuremberg, but can't find one with a reverse like this one.

That is a counterfeit $10, but no way to know if it was made in the north or the south.

And game counters were commonly made with designs similar to those of US gold coins. Frankly the coin in the OP is only somewhat similar to the real coin, there are significant differences. That is why I say game counter.

Here's the no-scroll reverse from the Capped Bust quarters of 1831-38. The Seated Liberty reverses are similar, but the denomination is given as QUAR. DOL., and it looks like your denomination begins with 2 and ends with C.



Admittedly, not a perfect match, but here's the reverse of the Liberty Head quarter eagles from 1840-1907. See what I mean about the difference?

Good point Conder101.