Is This A Early Forgery ?

Looks real to me. May have a brassy colour as its toned or been around coppery coins a lot. Wear is consistent with a coin in VG to gVG condition. Its the last year of King George III and a nice design.

After making some comparisons I'm now 99.9% certain that your coin is counterfeit.

EDIT - I don't know why but my post isn't displaying correctly when I add photos and links? I'll try again in the morning.

Why does the date give it away? Just curious.

I see, thanks.

I'm still not sure why my post last night wouldn't display properly but I'll try again now that I'm not half asleep!
Note - I see that JimmyD has since posted one of the two indicators that I had been trying to post

In the comparisons below the first image is of your coin, the second is from All Coin Values https://www.allcoinvalues.com/unite...-over-s.html and the third is from NGC Coin https://www.NGCcoin.com/price-guide...duid-1324201





As depicted, an indicator on the obverse is that the bottom of the bust is too far away from the colon following 'D' and on the reverse there are too many raised dots surrounding the rampant lion.

Between slim and none.

In my experience counterfeits in this series are VERY common. There are literally dozens of known varieties. Chances of a rare die variety are so low I would say infinitesimal. Just look at the details on the royal crest.

windweaver77 You are 100% correct.

The coin is a contemporary counterfeit and therefore of some value. My comment was not meant to indicate that this particular example is so common that it is worthless - just that there are many contemporary varieties available.

The comment about a rare die variety was directed at genuine coins. This series represents the NEW English issue done with steam power and using all of the modern innovations introduced by Matthew Bolton. The number of rare varieties is low, and I would speculate that because collecting coins has been popular for much longer than US issues, that all of the die varieties are actually known. At one time, I did collect English coinage because of my ancestry, the English coins were typically made without significant varieties like US or Mexican types. I never have lost my interest in counterfeits - especially Mexican.

I own about 2 dozen George III counterfeit shillings, so I am far from being an expert on the series, however, the prices are rarely very high for examples in this grade. Unless this die pair is extremely rare, it is not a particularly valuable example and is unlikely to be worth more than $20.