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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;nerarities, post: 955704, member: 26684&quot;]I dont blame anyone for commenting that this might be a chinese counterfeit.&nbsp; It is really an incredible coin that seems almost unbelievable.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Just a little history.&nbsp; Mike Ringo was one of the few experts on contemporary Irish and British counterfeits starting his study in the early 80s.&nbsp; He passed away from liver failure at way to young of an age (58).&nbsp; Stacks received his collection and auctioned his best pieces (mainline examples) in January 2009.&nbsp; This was a piece he traded a 1796 quarter in F15 for in 1985.&nbsp; He thought it was one of the greatest errors in a series he understood before anyone else had done serious study in it.&nbsp; Today, there are many collectors of Irish counterfeits, as they are proven to have circulated along US made coins in colonial america.</p><p><br /></p><p>The chinese have incredible talent as I have seen in displays and talks at recent coin shows.&nbsp; However, there is one thing they do not have, pedigrees!!!&nbsp; I think personally that pedigreed coins, whether from the Eliasberg collection or a reputable dealer are going to mean a lot going forward in our hobby.&nbsp; This piece for example I saw at the ANA in Baltimore for the first time (I believe that was 2002, which was when Mike finally acquired it) before being in the collection of a well known collector of the series since 1961!!! </p><p><br /></p><p>ARGuy, thank you for the kind words.&nbsp; Seems in my short time here, we are making a good team![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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