What is this?

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• jmj3esq Posts: 5,421 ✭

  April 11, 2007 3:47AM

  I have no idea. Maybe a silver round?

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• Connecticoin Posts: 13,143 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 11, 2007 3:48AM

  Looks like one of those 3 inch pot-metal replicas

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• CheeseGuy Posts: 191 ✭✭

  April 11, 2007 3:49AM

  The real version of this?

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• Scavenger Posts: 987

  April 11, 2007 3:50AM

  I bought two of those from a guy in the united Kingdom last year. It has no face value, some kind of token I guess. $999 ? I bought two for $5.00 plus shipping.

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• Cladiator Posts: 18,298 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 11, 2007 3:52AM

  Below is a link to the auction. The seller gives no information about it.
  
  Link-A-Dink
  
  
  
  
  

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• Scavenger Posts: 987

  April 11, 2007 3:55AM

  Method of payment - Cash In Letter (At Your Risk)
  
  Yep, that's how I'm gonna pay

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• N8 Posts: 505

  April 11, 2007 4:07AM

  Looks like it may be a counterfeit: Link

  First get the knowledge, then the coins.
  
  

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• Zoins Posts: 34,401 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 11, 2007 4:21AM

  Is it more appropriate to call it a fantasy coin than a counterfeit?

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• mozeppa Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭

  April 11, 2007 4:32AM

  might be a pattern coin?

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• mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭

  April 11, 2007 4:41AM

  coaster?

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• Writersblock Posts: 1,196 ✭

  April 11, 2007 5:25AM

  That thing shows up frequently. It is the size of a silver round and there have been a couple of people who have actually claimed that they are silver, but there have also been many of them which were obviously base metal, sometimes silver plated. They are sometimes offered as patterns, but they are really just a base metal fantasy. Ignore it.

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• Cgb Posts: 710 ✭

  April 11, 2007 5:32AM

  I have no idea. I would be very interested to see if anyone knows the history.

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• DorkGirl Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭

  April 11, 2007 8:47AM

  Yes, it's a fantasy piece from our good friends in China.

  Becky

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• Writersblock Posts: 1,196 ✭

  April 12, 2007 12:00AM

  When I ran into them for the first time years ago, the owner said that he had purchased them from a bullion dealer in Lebanon. He was convinced that he had found an unlisted pattern dollar and that it had to be silver because the Lebanese bullion dealer would have known if it wasn't silver. (Oh yes I'm sure that silver coins from Lebanon would have to be real, it's just fake GOLD coins that come from Lebanon, not silver.)

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• BigBubba Posts: 85

  April 12, 2007 12:18AM

  Interesting.

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