Very difficult to be certain but I completely agree that it has the appearance of a fake because the tops of all the letters seem to be concave. That points to a hump in the die or mold. That happens most often in the case of a plastic mold that is pulled off the host coin before the plastic has fully hardened. Duplicating this type feature on a die is conversely difficult.
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