My brother owns a small diner, and a few months ago, one of his regular customers shows him this coin that he “found” in an old dresser. He gave it to my brother, who asked me to check it out. For the year 1800, this one had the wrong weight, wrong diameter, and had no edge-lettering. I showed it to a coin dealer friend, who immediately assessed it as a fake. He even thought it might be cast rather than struck. I thought it had a lot of nice details for a cast specimen. Anyway, there’s a lot of information on the web about very good Chinese fakes, some so good they fool some “experts”.
An interesting conversation piece, nevertheless.
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