Isn’t She A Beauty?

Not bad looking. The only thing is that four letter word on the reverse-COPY. It’s just a token piece, not even the correct design.

 

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Well.... Not bad for a copy.

 

Not at all. It even has a die crack, not a real one but it’s made for the coin on the reverse side.

 

Not even sure where or when I got this piece.

 

Oh, look what I found on the shelf over my desk!





This came out of some random eBay lot ten years or so ago. Looks like someone tried to scratch out the COPY stamp, then someone else dropped acid onto the coin to test it. Why didn't I just toss it? I guess I was saving it for today!

 

More from the same lot. I'm remembering that this was after eBay announced the policy change banning copy coins, but before they implemented it. (I was going to say "started enforcing it", but I guess we're still waiting for that.)



(all medal orientation, by the way...)

 

Hilarious! Glad you saved it.

 

Here's a contemporary piece of play money or "Spiel Marke". Struck Circa 1856 from the little research I've done.

 

Ya gotta love it!

 

Here's mine!

 

I am kind of partial to this one too . . . .

Z

(undated) Liberty - Comp. S. Marke / City Hall - New York Spiel-Marke - Fauver (Liberty-1010, City Hall-1105 b (P)) (R7) - 27mm

 

Here's another Liberty copy, it's a thick one, followed by a 3 headed Spiel Marke made by the Lauer company. Lauer made a ton of US tokens and medals which is amazing to think about since he and his family was from Nuremberg, Germany!