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jpsned Pillar of the Community United States 2255 Posts	Posted 03/26/2014 10:24 am I have no information on it. Report this Post to the Staff

John1 Moderator United States 56855 Posts	Posted 03/26/2014 10:48 am Looks like a fake widows mite. John1 Report this Post to the Staff
Ben Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 4208 Posts	Posted 03/26/2014 12:13 pm Im afraid its a common fake of the widows mite. For some reason, they were very lax with the design - its very different to the real deal. Report this Post to the Staff
jpsned Pillar of the Community United States 2255 Posts	Posted 03/26/2014 1:59 pm Hi guys, Yeah, I had a suspicion... it doesn't feel real, either. Can you tell me what a widows mite is? Thanks. Report this Post to the Staff
John1 Moderator United States 56855 Posts	Posted 03/26/2014 5:02 pm http://www.thewidowsmite.net/story-...s-mites.html John1 Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 17012 Posts	Posted 03/26/2014 6:22 pm ...and if you do a forum search for "replica widows mite", you'll find more than a few threads with this exact same replica on them. It's a mass-produced machine-made replica, sold in bulk via religious supplies stores so pastors, youth group leaders and Sunday School teachers can give away one to everybody. As a result, there's an awful lot of the things floating around out there and many people that have them have forgotten how they acquired them. Quote: For some reason, they were very lax with the design - its very different to the real deal. That's been noted before too. As I mentioned in earlier appearances of this replica type, such as in this thread, I speculate that whoever made them was using a picture or an old line-drawing of a widows mite out of a book as their model, rather than an actual coin. 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
jpsned Pillar of the Community United States 2255 Posts	Posted 03/26/2014 6:39 pm Thanks again for the good information. Mystery solved! Report this Post to the Staff
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