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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 3702223, member: 82322&quot;]Silver concoctions by Becker have toned and look <a href="https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=373966" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=373966" rel="nofollow">like this</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>The <a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=97894" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=97894" rel="nofollow">description of the lot</a> of 329 Becker &quot;coins&quot; auctioned in 2007 gives the basic timeline of the white metal pieces:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Becker’s death in April 1830 left his family with little money and a quantity of forged coin dies. From these dies, sets of coins were struck in a lead-tin alloy (actually a poor quality pewter) and sold to collectors and institutions. At some point Becker’s family sold the dies to the Saalfeld Museum, from whence they finally were given to the Kaiser-Friedrich Museum in Berlin in 1911.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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