Need Help Identifying An 1818 UK George III Penny "like"coin

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dvw1974 Valued Member United Kingdom 74 Posts	Posted 04/27/2015 11:01 am Hi all, I found this coin in a coin lot I purchased recently - It is the size of a penny coin and as I know there was no pennies struck in that year for George III, I had difficulty identifying it. The coin measures 32mm across and weighs 11.9g (my scale might be slightly off). Report this Post to the Staff

Kefiroth Pillar of the Community United States 1431 Posts	Posted 04/27/2015 12:50 pm It appears to be a contemporary forgery of an 1818 Half-Crown. Manufacturing base metal counterfeits of high-value circulating silver coins would have been a very profitable enterprise for fraudsters back in the day. Report this Post to the Staff
publius Pillar of the Community United States 807 Posts	Posted 04/27/2015 3:24 pm Definitely the type of the half-crown. Without close examination, I'd be unwilling entirely to dismiss the possibility of an off-metal strike done in the Mint for some reason, as silvered die-struck copper counterfeits would seem to be the least common class (casts in lead or pewter being the most common). Report this Post to the Staff
Petrus Pillar of the Community Belgium 2895 Posts	Posted 04/27/2015 5:00 pm https://goccf.com/t/98551 http://www.predecimal.com/forum/top...inese-fakes/ http://www.metaldetectingforum.co.u...=121&t=63768 Report this Post to the Staff
publius Pillar of the Community United States 807 Posts	Posted 04/27/2015 5:32 pm Devil of a lot of work to go to, just to get hanged for treason. It must have gone out of fashion pretty rapidly, since the 1840s reports on reform of The Royal Mint say there had been no problem with struck counterfeits in a long time, and the 1896 Royal Mint Report states as a fact that "no previous case is on record of counterfeiting using steel dies", referring to a Frenchman who was tried that year. Here's a whole page of them for you to compare yours to. Edited by publius 04/27/2015 11:36 pm Report this Post to the Staff
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