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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Maxfli, post: 3439210, member: 69089&quot;]No you shouldn&#039;t, and nobody has suggested you &quot;assume&quot; it&#039;s a replica.&nbsp; All they&#039;ve said is that there are a lot of good reasons you should doubt it&#039;s authenticity until proven otherwise.</p><p><br /></p><p>You yourself posted a couple of items that cast doubt.&nbsp; Your grandfather&#039;s book echoes what [USER=24633]@cpm9ball[/USER] said, &quot;It appears that after patterns were made and offered for inspection to the states committee, they were not approved.&quot;&nbsp; Meaning, they were not minted in larger quantities for circulation.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, the text and image on the packaging of the coin — that&#039;s professionally executed, and strongly suggests it was done for the marketing of a replica coin or replica set. And the end of the second sentence, &quot;...an original half penny is valued at...&quot; suggests that what&#039;s in the package isn&#039;t original.</p><p><br /></p><p>A quick Google search shows that there have been a number of replica offerings of this coin, some stamped with &quot;copy&quot; and some created before that became law.</p><p><br /></p><p>I hope it&#039;s real. That would be way cool. But I doubt it&#039;s real.&nbsp; Oh, and welcome to CT.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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