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Coinery

Counterfeit Elizabeth I Halfpenny

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Happy New Year everyone.

See a good number of these around. Contemporary I’d think, certainly not Crown coinage.

eBay 353313505402

 

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Portcullis looks wrong , but otherside is quite convincing .

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Agreed.

 

Oh, and happy new year to you too Stu. Long time no see etc.

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Either its a china copy (which means its recent ) or a hoard of contemp forgeries has turned up .

I would guess if its base silver the latter is more likely .

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2 hours ago, copper123 said:

Either its a china copy (which means its recent ) or a hoard of contemp forgeries has turned up .

I would guess if its base silver the latter is more likely .

Just for clarification, when I say ‘I’ve seen a good number of these around,’ I mean a good number of types of counterfeit E1 halfpennies. :) 

There may also be a lot of this particular type around, I don’t know for sure because I haven’t had my eye on it for a couple of years!

This one’s for sale by John Newman...IIRC he’s previously had other counterfeit (contemporary or otherwise) hammered for sale, and I think the idea was at the time that they were pretty obvious and he ought to know better. I’ll see if I can track that conversation down...otherwise I’ll have to retract this paragraph.
 

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