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

@dcarr - those are 2 excellent examples of a reasonably common (i.e., 50+ still exist), documented, researched, and published die struck contemporary counterfeit U.S. coin variety. @Namvet69 - There … (View Post)

At least AU details (View Post)

It's actually just a silver planchet. Here's another example with some gold plating still present. No contemporary counterfeit gold dollars are known to have been struck on platinum planche… (View Post)

Yes, for a cast counterfeit WLH your example is quite nice. Some die struck counterfeit WLHs are also quite good, such as this 1921 made from hand-made dies. (View Post)