Cool Contemporary Commentary On Contemporary Counterfeits,

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Westwood Arms Pillar of the Community United States 684 Posts	Posted 02/01/2024 2:07 pm "I had an old slick counterfeit quarter that warn't no good because the brass showed through the silver a little, even if the brass didn't show though the silver a little and it wouldn't pass no how because it was so slick it felt greasy, and so that would tell it every time...he would split up a raw Irish potato and stick the quarter in between and keep it all night, and next morning you couldn't see no brass, and it wouldn't' feel greasy no more and anybody in town would take in a minute." Report this Post to the Staff

jbuck Moderator United States 187557 Posts	Posted 02/01/2024 2:16 pm Very interesting! Coin Collector Since 1978 Avatar Old Avatar 7070 Eisenhower Australia Canada World CCF Members on eBay CCF eBay Search Engine Report this Post to the Staff
Spence Moderator United States 34393 Posts	Posted 02/01/2024 2:21 pm @west, is that a quote from Huckleberry Finn? "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 Report this Post to the Staff
Coinfrog Bedrock of the Community United States 94367 Posts	Posted 02/01/2024 3:24 pm Definitely from Huckleberry Finn. Report this Post to the Staff
tdziemia Pillar of the Community United States 7933 Posts	Posted 02/01/2024 3:30 pm Very interesting! Quote: ... that warn't no good because the brass showed through the silver a little, Maybe something like this? 2 reales = 2 bits = quarter Report this Post to the Staff
jbuck Moderator United States 187557 Posts	Posted 02/01/2024 4:15 pm Quote: @west, is that a quote from Huckleberry Finn? Quote: Definitely from Huckleberry Finn. I had to have read that over 40 years ago and did not even get a hint of remembering it. https://www.sparknotes.com/nofear/l...er-4/page_2/ Coin Collector Since 1978 Avatar Old Avatar 7070 Eisenhower Australia Canada World CCF Members on eBay CCF eBay Search Engine Report this Post to the Staff
realeswatcher Pillar of the Community United States 1962 Posts	Posted 02/01/2024 6:23 pm "so slick it felt greasy" That's what's usually said about lead counterfeits, yes? Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16806 Posts	Posted 02/01/2024 8:59 pm I have heard of the "bake in a potato" method for re-toning coins, but hadn't heard of it's use in covering up a fake. But I can trump Mark Twain for a contemporary reference to contemporary counterfeits. Here's Pliny the Elder, in his chapter on "Egyptian Silver" from his Natural History encyclopedia, Book 33 Chapter 46, published circa AD 79: Quote: It is truly marvellous, that in this art [of counterfeiting coins], and in this only, the various methods of falsification should be made a study. For an example of a false denarius is now an object of careful examination, and people absolutely buy the counterfeit coin at the price of many genuine ones! Pliny was astonished that anybody would pay above face value for a coin, let alone a fake coin. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
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