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• johnny9434 Posts: 31,751 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 31, 2026 10:12AM edited February 1, 2026 3:57AM

  Omg, if the lettierng isint a dead give away. What a fugly looking thing 😳

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• jonathanb Posts: 3,997 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 31, 2026 11:22AM edited January 31, 2026 12:41PM

  That's really neat, and probably has some decent value. It's listed in Winston Zack's recent book on contemporary counterfeits, with a comment that it's struck in sterling silver.

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• 291fifth Posts: 25,121 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 31, 2026 11:50AM

  Great for passing in a poorly lit saloon of the era (and there were a lot of them).

  All glory is fleeting.

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• johnny9434 Posts: 31,751 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 31, 2026 12:00PM

  @291fifth said:
  Great for passing in a poorly lit saloon of the era (and there were a lot of them).

  And/or really busy as well

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• BadMetal Posts: 18 ✭✭

  January 31, 2026 12:31PM

  Yes, this is a contemporary counterfeit and a variety I identify in my Bad Metal book as Z2-C. Very cool!

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• pursuitofliberty Posts: 7,770 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 31, 2026 1:17PM

  @291fifth said:
  Great for passing in a poorly lit saloon of the era (and there were a lot of them).

  Do you remember?

  

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  @BadMetal Hey Winston

  
  “We are only their care-takers,” he posed, “if we take good care of them, then centuries from now they may still be here … ”
  
  Todd - BHNC #242

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• MWallace Posts: 4,611 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 31, 2026 4:02PM

  @pursuitofliberty said:

  @291fifth said:
  Great for passing in a poorly lit saloon of the era (and there were a lot of them).

  Do you remember?

  I don't. Why don't you tell us about it Todd?

  SmallDollars.com

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• CaptHenway Posts: 33,719 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 31, 2026 4:08PM

  @291fifth said:
  Great for passing in a poorly lit saloon of the era (and there were a lot of them).

  Pretty good counterfeit for the era.

  Numismatist. 54 year member ANA. Former ANA Senior Authenticator. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and ANA Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Also won the PNG's Robert Friedberg Award for "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," Available now from Whitman or Amazon.

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• TomB Posts: 22,918 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 31, 2026 6:00PM

  I love it!

  Thomas Bush Numismatics & Numismatic Photography
  
  In honor of the memory of Cpl. Michael E. Thompson
  
  

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• johnny9434 Posts: 31,751 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 1, 2026 3:59AM

  @jonathanb said:
  That's really neat, and probably has some decent value. It's listed in Winston Zack's recent book on contemporary counterfeits, with a comment that it's struck in sterling silver.

  That might be worth taking a look at 🤔, just for the extra smarts

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