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 Posted 06/08/2022  9:24 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add newdude to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hello all,
I have this 1652 newengland coin. what am I looking for to see if its real?
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It's a fake. The planchet is too round. It is never that regular. The lettering is too even and easily readable. Surface is too even and smooth. Badly executed modern counterfeit.
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no need to expand on NS's comment
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Fake looks like a modern souvenir piece more than a counterfeit.
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ok, thanks. not to modern, it came out of my father in laws collection. been stuck in a corner for a whole lot of years.
thanks for your help.
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They have been making collector (replica) copies of the Massachusetts silvers for many, many years and still do; at least as far back as the mid 1800s and possibly earlier than that.

In 1952 for the 300th anniversary there was a surge of interest since coin collecting was a booming hobby at the time, and quite a few replicas came out around this time, including some that only copied one side of the original and used the other side with a design commemorating the anniversary.

Earlier, pre-1970s replicas (and many modern Chinese fakes) do not bear the COPY stamp that is now required on such coins in the US, and even those older replicas can be altered to remove the COPY mark.



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 Posted 06/16/2022  12:17 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add newdude to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
yup, as I'm learning to look at the coins closer I found the "copy" stamped on the side of the coin.
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