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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;desertgem, post: 641868, member: 15199&quot;]Your photos shows the token as represented in the Redbook, and not the restrike which were made of planed 1861 N.O. halves obverses and &quot;restruck&quot; on the planed side with the confederate reverse. 500 restrikes as such and of coin silver.&nbsp;&nbsp; Then Scott used his own obverse ( like on yours) to strike 500 white metal <b>tokens</b>. Still a nice token and nice value if shown to be a truely struck token. I do have strong doubts as to its originality due to the pitting and general surfaces. Copies made by spark process would copy cracks, etc, but also add pitting from the electrical spark.</p><p>A start would be to weigh it to fractions of grams and compare with the weight of a real restrike. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.csacurrency.com/csacoin/csa50ct.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.csacurrency.com/csacoin/csa50ct.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.csacurrency.com/csacoin/csa50ct.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Jim[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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