French coin date 1752 advice please

digitaldreams,

I believe that Doug will say that it is also a fake! The first one appears to be cast from a mold and the second one appears that it may have been struck using mold casted Dies. However, the second one might just be a much better cast fake!


Frank

 

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Thanks guys......:desk:

 

Hmm, I was just looking for some info about a coin i have and i ended up here reading you guys. I must say it was very educational. The coin looked like a tin piece to me but also kinda nice looking one with this gold look.
Here is the picture of my coin.

 

Thanks

Yes, thats what i thought after reading you guys. Thank you so much
Tay

 

why too much fake of this coin?is it valuable?
can someone post a photo of the authentic coin?

 

1752 Austrian coin

I, too, have the same coin that Juliette is describing. I found it in France in 1989 when they were digging up the courtyard of the house I was living in. It looked like it had been buried for quite a while. When did Reader's Digest make all the replica Austrian coins, or could this be the real thing?
Luann

 

I have one

I also have one of these coins. i found it on a beach 30 years ago. It only weighs 2.2 grammes but is definitely not magnetic. It was really tarnished/dirty when i found it but i cleaned it up and it seems to be silver in colour. Do you think it may be worth anything?

 

It's not a coin.

 

Alas, but it's not a coin.

 

I don't know what the first person that asked this question meant but I'd like to know the answer to this question as well. I'll ask it in a slightly different way so perhaps someone can answer:

What was there about this coin that caused it to be selected by Reader's Digest to be mass produced and cause all this trouble. I can think of a hundred coins that I'd be more likely to include in my advertising scheme but someone saw enough significance here to select this one. When they promoted a book on ancient Greece, they selected a coin of Gela with a rather neat man-headed bull design on one side and a chariot on the other. While not super rare, it is a very typical Greek looking design (albeit Gela being in Greek Sicily). Another commonly found super-fake is the New Hampshire colonial WM/1776 which is super rare but still the first coin issued in the US by the newly declared independent US. I assume it got points for being first.

What is it that is special about this ducat that caused it to be selected as the coin for the promotion?

 

i am fascinated with these fantasy pieces and have built a decent collection of them for a very small outlay of around 10p each. along with counterfeits they always catch my eye for an alternative collection................

 

maybe this might be the real thing "i have read what u all have said and the coin i have does not have serrated edges and is smooth but u guys can be the judge" i also have another coin i will show u guys aswell and let me no if there worth anything

 

It's a modern fake.

 

Weight 2,15grams. Fake or real, thanks in advance

 

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