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L'an 5 (1796) Strasbourg 5 centimes... but not really
WorldCoinsDmitry
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Originally thought it may have been a currency counterfeit from photos, but in hand I believe it's a 19th century novelty replica. It's silver gilded and too small at 26mm and ~6.95 grams compared to reference 28mm and 10g. The edge also has a faint seam and what appears to be remnants of a casting sprue. Does something like this go into the "black cabinet" or the gray one?
Edit: Forgot to mention that it's medal alignment instead of normal coin aligment.
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Were the planchets cast?
For genuine coins? Not sure, would have to look that up. But they would not have had a plain edge.
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Why not? They were not struck in a collar.
Black.
As far as I know all genuine coins of this type had either diagonal/oblique, chevron or X shaped milling of the edges
Pictures on Numista site: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces886.html https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces22047.html and https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces27075.html
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OK. Sometimes the lower value bronze coins weren't worth the effort to do that because of the low threat of counterfeits. I know that some of the Mexican coins struck during the revolution were struck on cast planchets.