1776 Continental Curency, Authentic Or Cast Copy?

Dan

Here's a link to help you post the pictures

http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/...g_images.asp

I believe that the leaving a mark like a pencil is a sign of silver, if I i remember right. Otherthan that I know nothing about these coins. Those pictures will definetly help.

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I tend to agree. I managed to get the obverse of your coin but it had the same code as the reverse and would only let me overwrite the first save. Anyhow, here is the obverse.

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Welcome to the CCF, Dan. This is a great website!

IMHO, your "coin" appears to be one of the copies that I first saw in the late 1960's. During that decade, a great many collector coin imitations surfaced. The Civil War centennial, followed by the declining use of silver in our circulating coins, resulted in a growing public interest in collecting. There was no requirement to then use the COPY label, although it was used by some companies. The casting gives the copies a more aged appearance. Many of the copies were sold in sets of historic coin replicas. as time passes, these old copies are becoming more collectable in their own right.

My own coin collecting interest was partially sparked by a non-coin. About sixty years ago now, my Dad handed me a counterfeit 1918 half dollar that was made of lead. He had found it in an old, discarded trunk. With it was one genuine coin, a 1795 Flowing Hair Dollar, three leaf variety. My Dad didn't think that the dollar was genuine, either. After I researched these two gifts at the library and learned that the dollar was genuine, I was hooked ... a lifetime of collecting fun! I still have the counterfeit, but I traded the genuine dollar to a local pastor for a variety of early type coins.