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These are fun - and your example is one of the nicer examples I've seen. Nope - these were made on a brass planchet (like many die struck counterfeit Seated half dollars). Hand-made die obverse, tran… (View Post)

These have never been published in a reference as far as I'm aware. But give it about a year and this variety, along with many other contemporary counterfeit U.S. copper coins, will be published in a… (View Post)

They are copper. And unfortunately after 2+ years of fairly exhaustive reviews of historic newspapers and other related documents I have not found a single report of a counterfeit '1891' dated Indian… (View Post)

I've got a couple of these as well - they are cool. At least 50 are estimated to still exist (View Post)

In high enough quantity they could probably make about 50% (assuming German silver) if distributing these themselves, or about 20-30% if selling pieces to a middle-man who would take more of the risk… (View Post)