Sylvester Posted July 10, 2004 Posted July 10, 2004 Welcome, i see you made it over here...Well i'll thrown my idea on the table, i thought i probably was a gaming token, but looking at those pictures it looks more like lead with gold paint... which suggests more counterfeit to me.But if it is a counterfeit it's not a convincing one...What does everyone else think? Quote
Emperor Oli Posted July 10, 2004 Posted July 10, 2004 I think it's rather convincing, actually. I looks to be a painted half crown which could have been done to attempt to pass it off as something of a higher denomination. I don't think it's a counterfeit in the way that Sylvester is saying, where he seems to think that it's been struck from die made by the counterfeiter (correct me if I'm wrong), I think that it's a half crown taken out of circulation and painted or gilded to try to use as perhaps a half-sovereign. Quote
Chris Perkins Posted July 10, 2004 Posted July 10, 2004 No, it's brass, and would have originally been silvered to be passed off as a Half Crown.No one would ever have accepted a very light Half Crown sized gold coin, which would have been an ovbious fake. People would have been more likely to accept a sligtly underweight Half Crown. Quote
Sylvester Posted July 10, 2004 Posted July 10, 2004 He said it was half sovereign sized though. Quote
Chris Perkins Posted July 10, 2004 Posted July 10, 2004 Yes of course, looks like a fake shilling...(23mm, more like sovereign size, but brass fake shillings are very common) Quote
Sylvester Posted July 10, 2004 Posted July 10, 2004 Well looking at that pic i thought it looked bigger than a 10/- Quote
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