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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1292312, member: 112&quot;]It&#039;s a Reader&#039;s Digest copy.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>What I was responding to was you calling it a &quot;fantasy&quot; piece. It isn&#039;t a fantasy piece. A fantasy coin is one that never existed in real life. A fantasy coin is not a copy, a counterfeit, or a reproduction. It is a coin which was designed and struck by a private individual, or group.</p><p><br /></p><p>In this case, there really was a 1752 Austrian gold ducat of the same design as these R.D. copies. The genuine coins are quite rare. So any copies cannot be called a fantasy coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, when Reader&#039;s Digest distributed these copies they were gold colored - base metal plated to look like gold. So over the years there have been many who thought they had a genuine coin. With this example that gold colored plating has worn off exposing the base metal underneath.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is a copy, a modern reproduction of a genuine coin. Nothing more.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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