Peru Half Sol 1928 | Fake - Coin Community Forum

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Pertinax Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 2135 Posts	Posted 11/25/2012 7:04 pm I acquired this in a lot of coins recently. A genuine coin is 12.5g of 50% silver. This one is 10.58g and looks rather brassy. I think it may be cast. It wouldn't have been worth forging this to fool coin collectors, but as a 1/2 sol was worth slightly more than 2 shillings (10p) in 1928, it might have been worth forging them in Peru. Are contemporary forgeries of Peruvian 1/2 sols of this period known ? Identified - moved to World Coins forum - Sap Report this Post to the Staff

Sap Moderator Australia 16867 Posts	Posted 11/25/2012 9:33 pm It's definitely a cast fake. Whether intended to circulate or not, and how much it actually did circulate, is anybody's guess at this juncture. But fake coins have lots of other origins besides attempted circulating counterfeits. For example, I have seen several Latin American fake coins made into tourist souvenirs; this old thread has a fake Panama balboa inlaid into a wooden box. But at virtually any time in history when silver coins have circulated, fake silver coins have tried to circulate alongside them. 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
fioti Pillar of the Community United States 4212 Posts	Posted 11/25/2012 9:43 pm I thought they contained less silver than that. I'd have to look. But the color is definatly off. I'm thinking an off-metal strike, but I cant think of what the planchet may have been intended for. Report this Post to the Staff
DVCollector Bedrock of the Community United States 10045 Posts	Posted 11/25/2012 11:41 pm That coin is really suspect. I have a few Peruvian coins from this period and all are very detailed and well struck. Even the much smaller 1/2 Dinero coins look like this: Report this Post to the Staff
Pertinax Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 2135 Posts	Posted 11/26/2012 04:02 am Thanks,everyone. Especially for the old thread - I saw a similar piece at auction but I wasn't willing to pay more than the winning bid - lucky I didn't and for the picture of the 1/2 dinero - not listed in my 35th edition of KM. Report this Post to the Staff
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