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Can anyone identify this token ?
levinll
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William Moulton (WM on the coin) was empowered by the newly formed House of Representatives to make a copper coin in 1776. Not much more is known about these coins. They did not appear in circulation. If you should have a genuine New Hampshire copper, it is essentially priceless, worth 100s of 1000s of dollars.
However, it is essentially impossible to find such a coin. In China, and other emerging free-market countries, counterfeiters are enjoying their regulation-free atmosphere and flooding the market with fake rare coins. That is, in all probability, what you have. It is worth a few US dollars as a novelty, even if it does not carry the COPY inscription mandated in the US, but not in many other countries.
A note in this CoinTalk thread refers to famous coin cataloger Walter Breen and how he says a genuine piece has a weigth of 79.5 grains, or 5.15 grams. If your coin weighs that much, submit it to PCGS, NGC, ANACS, or ICG for authentication.
Related CoinTalk thread
Should it be real, it should be copper and a description is in the Red Book.
Good luck.
Jim
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<< <i>1776 William Moulton NH copper replica >>
Replica being the key word here. Looks like a cast piece of junque.
One of those pieces you can buy at the museum in the gift shop......