Yes they are copper. And not to worry, I go through hundreds of thousands of coins and these fake coins are rare. Plus they only seem to occur in lots from old collections so they tricked someone in the past. Genuine coins are flooding the German established auction houses right now. I don't think the counterfeiter would make half the money these days making these if they made them recently as the market is saturated with countless real coins much nicer. Just my opinion of course but there has to be a profit incentive to make fakes.























