Contemporary Counterfeits

Necro-bumps are fine when adding worthy content.

I'll make a contribution...and will be quick to add that counterfeits are not an intentional part of my collection, but I was missing this date in my OFEY series, and it's a place that I collect. I posted it preiously on another thread.


This is a struck copper fake of a 1689 silver Patagon of Spanish Netherlands. It would have been plated/washed in silver.
As this was a massive (40 mm) hammered coin, the real ones often suffer from uneven strikes, so this would have been a really handsome specimen.
There is a "tell." I'm sure everyone figured it out, but here goes: The legend reverse says Brabant (BRAB at 9:00), but the mintmark above the crown obverse is a fleur-de-lis, the mint mark of Bruges, which is not in Brabant.

this is a contemporary half crown, german silver and gilded I found metal detecting :)

Nice find!

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Nice example!