Some were silver over a brass core. there's a lot of youtube video's etc out there. just google "coin inside a chinese coin counterfeiting" for instance: A Look Inside A Chinese Silver Coin Counterfeiting Ring – Silver Doctors
Look at yours underneath and over the top of the breasts and then compare to the photos of the real one.
I didn't purchase this coin, it was gave to a friend who gave it to me. I see 100% all the flaws by comparing to yours. Thanks for the photo
Fake as hell. For one thing, look at the rays of the sun on the obverse. On a real coin, the tips are equidistant to the solar disk. On your coin, they are not. The lettering on the reverse is all messed up--the tops of the letters are not even with each other (the D in United and the M in America, for example). The D also looks crooked in relation to the other letters.
This is a very telling and super great answer….. Often times us old coin guys will say something like… “It looks off to me”….. And the reason they look off to us old coin guys is exactly things like the stripes on the shield being off center. Typically US engravers are dead on the mark. Other than some very early stuff, there really aren’t “small” mistakes on US issues. And it’s an accumulation of the “small mistakes” that give a phony piece the appearance of being off. Details are extremely important when assessing coins these days.