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RKKay · December 25, 2003 1:49PM

What does every one of these have in common? The answer is not "they are patterns" or "they are raw" of other like answers.

Answer tomorrow.

razorface1027 · December 25, 2003 1:52PM

They're all counterfiet.

Sphinx357 · December 25, 2003 1:52PM

copper
united states of america
cent
1800's

JrGMan2004 · December 25, 2003 1:54PM

They look copper, but aren't?

Sphinx357 · December 25, 2003 1:55PM

<< <i>They're all counterfiet. >>

I was thinking maybe that too.

Lakesammman · December 25, 2003 2:04PM

Me too.....what's the story with the skinny eagle patterns?? Fake too??

JasonRox · December 25, 2003 2:05PM

they all show one eye, and never two.

RKKay · December 25, 2003 2:25PM

Sorry. Forgot this one.

atarian · December 25, 2003 2:31PM

i would venture one of 2 possibilities

first like you all said that its counterfeit. (yet the first one looks like a 3rd party strike like tehy did with large cents in 1837.

or they are experimental government strikes. kinda like the 1974 alluminum cents. and the 1943 ,44 cents . they were experiments that teh govt were unhappy with . cause 1858 was the last year for the FE and many were reused 1857 strikes. teh 1875's was teh last year of the 20 cent piece.. the 1870 had the variteity of the Closed N in "CENTS" . and teh 1836 2 cent experimental cent that lead to teh 1864-73 2 cent pieces (also failed)

unless they were all shrunken down with that super magnet though

nankraut · December 25, 2003 2:56PM

I don't know whether they're all counterfeit, but I think they've all been cleaned and artificially toned by using heat/chemicals.

SarasotaFrank · December 25, 2003 3:02PM

they're all Rk's?

Russ · December 25, 2003 3:02PM

The correct answer is that they are all pretty cool. Of course, there's probably another answer that is also correct.

Russ, NCNE

khalleyplayer · December 25, 2003 3:04PM

counterfeit

RKKay · December 26, 2003 12:25AM

I had a different answer in mind, but liked Sarasota Frank's so much ("they're all Rk's?"), I've decided THAT is the answer.

Answer by noon eastern.

FC57Coins · December 26, 2003 12:43AM

Are these all off metal trials?

pmh1nic · December 26, 2003 12:54AM

They're all raw.

joeyuk · December 26, 2003 1:02AM

molded counterfeit as opposed to struck. The first one makes me think that.

cosmicdebris · December 26, 2003 1:15AM

Definately weird metals

MrEureka · December 26, 2003 1:29AM

Those are the coins that RK sold to family members in the past year?

RKKay · December 26, 2003 1:34AM

Those are the coins that RK sold to family members in the past year?

No. To little old ladies as investments.

RKKay · December 26, 2003 1:45AM

All are counterfeit patterns. I believe they are all cast except the J-228 (the one I added). Here is it's rim:

sinin1 · December 26, 2003 2:13AM

Feuchtwanger designed them but did not get credit

and they were made with 'german silver'

joeyuk · December 26, 2003 2:14AM

I used the word molded and later realize cast was the appropriat word. but the two cent piece really gives this impression. Joe

Mark · January 10, 2004 11:22AM

RKKay was kind enough to show my wife and myself these at the FUN show. They are truly interesting to look at.

I presume the counterfeiters likely owned an actual copy of some of these patterns. I am left to wonder how these "coins" were created without damaging the patterns that somehow provided the prototype for the counterfeit. Do you suppose they used cast copies in order to not harm the original, genuine coin?

Mark

Outhaul · January 10, 2004 11:29AM

"Feuchtwanger"? Can you SAY that in mixed company?

HEY CAROL! RKKAY TYPED A BAD WORD!

Cyril was always the life of the party because of the feuchtwanger in his pocket.

Sorry...couldn't help myself...I'll just go and seek counseling now.

Cheers,

Bob

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