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 Posted 04/28/2020  8:08 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add dusha1960 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I got this coin from a box I kept for more than 25 years.
We don't even remember where we got this coin from and I'm wondering is this a real coin? It is 29mm in diameter.
I don't know the weight.
Anybody helping me with this? And if this is a real coin what is its value?
Attached below are the coin photos. Thanks in advance!

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 Posted 04/28/2020  8:22 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Spence to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
@dusha, not a real Spanish Doubloon, but rather a copy. If you look closely at the rev under the shield, you can make out "COPY" stamped into the metal.
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 Posted 04/28/2020  9:01 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add dusha1960 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks a lot for your help!
Of course I can not see the "COPY" stamped into the metal.
But I believe it, because you have experienced eyes.
I'm thinking who the heck is going to do fake coin and write "copy"on it. It sounds really stupid!
People don't have anything else to do?
Thanks a lot anyway!
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 Posted 04/29/2020  12:27 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add sel_69l to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
You get to see a lot of things in more than 50 years of collecting.
A copy it certainly is.
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 Posted 04/29/2020  06:02 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Spence to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
@dusha, see below--I've colored in the word COPY--I think that once you see it, you won't be able to not see it. Its actually kinda nice to have the Hobby Protection Act of 1973 so that fake coins are clearly marked as such.


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"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb

"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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 Posted 04/29/2020  7:54 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add dusha1960 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks a lot! I clearly saw it!
I doubted it from the very beginning!
Now I know for sure!
Thanks, guys!
I will use your expertise in the future also!
Stay safe!
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