Im new at this. I have a 1776 copper American Liberty coin. Would like to know more about it. Iv read a little about the coin. Id love to find out if it is real or a copy.
Not too many coins made in the US in 1776 (none, I think). What does it look like? If you have trouble taking pictures, you could even scan it on your printer.
Okay I have the 1776 American Liberty coin as well and there is one question that I would like to ask does the fake ones have copy on it and next to the one is a (R) does anyone know anything about it
That’s a cast fake of a 1776 New Hampshire Halfpenny. These were made in a very small quantity by a colonist named William Moulton, on behalf of the State House of Representatives. Yours is a modern counterfeit that is often sold in gift shops. I found mine at the Boston Tea Party tourist attraction
The R stood for REPLICA and was a common way for honest manufacturers to mark their copies back before the 1973 Hobby Protection Act. It is also a common way of marking them from British manufacturers.
