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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Silver_Dollars, post: 80053, member: 3327&quot;]They must have had a lot of time to waist, forging two intricate tiny dies just to stamp this coin.&nbsp; It would have taken countless hours by a master metal worker to make the two distinct Cap and Ray designs (any idiot could have made the strange looking cross).&nbsp; I do not think they were playing around but maybe trying to fool collectors, but then again what would be the purpose as the coin is now worthless because of the damage.&nbsp; I am not so quick to pass judgment on this coin yet as I have heard rumors of fake chop marked Mexican coins in the past, made to pass as contemporary examples.&nbsp; Are there contemporary examples??? Maybe in museums??? Or specialized reference books???&nbsp; If a fellow only uses KM as their guide to what does and does not exist, let me give this example; I consider myself an expert in the Xian Feng reign of Chinese cash, KM might give one or two varieties of a coin that actually has 200 to 300 varieties, I have one reference on this ten-year period that is larger than the entire KM catalog of world coins 19th century edition.&nbsp; Worse yet telling someone their coin is fake without even doing the research in my opinion is poor numismatics…..[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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