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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 8013011, member: 12789&quot;]I have several authentic and several counterfeit examples of George III coinage and this piece appears to be a contemporary counterfeit.&nbsp; Actually I think the counterfeits are more interesting because the British crown was notoriously negligent in supplying particularly low value coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>In colonial America coinage was chronically in short supply - which was a factor leading up to the revolution.&nbsp; But in Britain coinage was also scarce, so much so that in Scotland bronze coinage was so scarce that Scots were forced to use Dutch duits and French sols and 17th century Scottish coinage until the mid to late 18th century.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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