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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scooterv, post: 1769989, member: 56677&quot;]Ok, I was a Civil War re-enactor on and off for many years, since my father was into it and they were FUN!&nbsp; I usually fell in as a Confederate.&nbsp; One day one of my Dad&#039;s friends gave me this, telling me I needed at least a penny in my haversack.&nbsp; When I saw it I thought it was real, but he clarified with &quot;Oh, no, there&#039;s no real ones left, it&#039;s just a fake and junk&quot;.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Well, now that I&#039;m going through my boxes and piles of hoarded stuff this one had me looking again.&nbsp; Is it a Bashlow restrike?&nbsp; My concern is on the reverse most pics I can find of a Bashlow has fine scratches running almost parallel to the three deep gouges.&nbsp; I don&#039;t see those fine lines on this one.&nbsp; Was the Bashlow again copied by taking a mold of one or anything?&nbsp; On the obverse it does have the blobs as well from the hammer taken to the die.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Anyway, just trying to figure out if it&#039;s really a Bashlow, and then more than &quot;junk&quot; or if it&#039;s some copy of a restrike.&nbsp; If it&#039;s a Bashlow I think it will be meeting E-Bay soon.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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