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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 4896062, member: 85693&quot;]Very interesting - thanks for posting this, even with the bad news on authenticity. </p><p><br /></p><p>A few years ago I read somewhere - and I am sorry but I don&#039;t remember where - an account of an American in China (a missionary, I think) who made a bunch of &quot;Fat Man&quot; dollars in order to meet expenses.&nbsp; He was using the same silver content as the original (or close to it) - this wasn&#039;t an effort to pass bad money so much as it was a way to make recognized silver ingots.&nbsp; I think they were casting them, so they couldn&#039;t have been very convincing. </p><p><br /></p><p>From what I gathered, counterfeiting these was pretty common at the time (c. 1920s).&nbsp; It also seemed that the counterfeits were sometimes pretty well done.&nbsp; So look on the bright side - maybe yours was an unofficial copy made to use in the 1920s?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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