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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jhonn, post: 283411, member: 5418&quot;]No problem. Most of these coins have actually been featured in the news as known fakes. Not only are they crude, but they don&#039;t appear to be silver at all (old silver has a very distinctive appearance). They are probably made of some base metal, perhaps nickel. </p><p><br /></p><p>By fantasy, yes, we mean the U.S. never minted such a coin. The design is completely made up. No president ever appeared on circulating coinage until 1909, even. The coin below that one and to the left is based off an Indian Head cent and a U.S. gold dollar, and is also essentially a made up design. Some of the coins, like the Trade Dollar fake (the top right coin in the first pic) has a completely wrong date, as no coins of that type were minted until 1873.</p><p><br /></p><p>Do you know what he spent on these? They&#039;re probably worth about a buck a piece just for the novelty factor.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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