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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;FredJB, post: 2135000, member: 73005&quot;]These plated bronze fakes, if my memory is correct, hit the west coast by the bag in the late 1970&#039;s.&nbsp; Story was that a Russian sailor was trying to sell a hoard of these that were claimed to have been smuggled out of the USSR.&nbsp; Eventually the burned buyers went to the police who confiscated a lot of these. A few were sent to Iola.&nbsp; I did a few specific gravity tests just for the record even though they were visually obvious fakes and the story was published in World Coin News.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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