Help I.D half shekel fake/real

While they look a bit different than those I run across from time to time, (I.E they seem to have have a suspicious texture/Fabric that make me have some doubts) that is definitely NOT a certainty of any actual issue of genuineness and may simply be due to an unfamiliar variety. Of course, they are a type that is of considerable interest to many and can often be quite pricey thus 'faked'.

Who knows why they would end up buried where your Grandfather found them, stranger things certainly have happened....perhaps as souvenirs or family keepsakes'/heirlooms??

Obviously, you need to have them physically examined by someone more knowledgeable than us and who has the advantage of examining and comparing them in hand.

Meanwhile, perhaps other members like @Ken Dorney or @maridvnvm can offer their opinions as well.

I hope they prove to be genuine, the 'provenance' intrigues me....and welcome to CT

 

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Wow! That's food for an historical fiction novel!

 

Wakefield coin fair on the 30th October it is then. Hopefully the so called experts will make me very happy or very disappointed.

 

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I still don't think they're real, but I hope they are. Have you weighed them and measured the diameter? Those two things alone could rule out a lot of tourist fakes.

 

Sounds like the rule but not the norm. What would of been with an in hand view with 10x

 

Hello deacon Ray

 

One of those cast fakes can probably be detected without any magnification.

 

The legends doesn't look like they were struct and it looks like the seam/edges were filed down to remove the seam making this coin smaller in dimensional size. I would say that this is a casted fake.

 

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