1520 Salzburg Batzen, Sloppy Die - Thoughts & Opinions?

I had never seen this coin variety before and have been working on identifying it. I think it is of the design of this coin:

http://www.coinfactswiki.com/wiki/Salzburg_1520_batzen

"SAINT EMPIRE, SALZBOURG, Archevêché, Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg (1519-1540), AR Batzen, 1520, Droit : Les écus de l'archevêché et de l'archevêque accolés sous un chapeau de cardinal. En dessous, la date. Revers : B. de saint Rupert de face, tenant un saloir et une crosse. Très Beau à Superbe(Archbishopric of Salzburg, Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg (1519-1540), silver batzen of 1520. Obverse: arms of the archbishop and of the archbishopric, cardinal's hat above, date below; reverse: facing bust of St. Rupert, bearing a crozier and a salt casket. VF - EF)"

But my coin is so sloppily executed I'm not sure what is going on. Size is about 26mm & 2.8g. and it has the right feel of a silver coin of this era IMO. Thoughts? My coin on top - Coinfacts coin below

Thank you

 

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It's more weakly impressed than usual, but really not out of the ordinary for European coins right after the medieval period

 

Maybe this is something similar to your coin...

http://www.acsearch.info/search.htm...s=1&currency=usd&thesaurus=1&order=0&company=

 

Aha! Thank you!! I suspected something like this was possible but it is really interesting to see that it is a known variety-

"Contemporary Italian forgery."