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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BUncirculated, post: 1415141, member: 29581&quot;]Not necessarily.</p><p><br /></p><p>More likely it was cast long after that series was made, for the purposes of duping unsuspecting collectors into believing it&#039;s an authentic piece from the period.</p><p><br /></p><p>China does it all the time with our U.S. Trade Dollars, and Morgan&#039;s from the 19th century. </p><p><br /></p><p>Trade dollars were struck by the U.S. Mint in the 1800&#039;s for export to Asia to compete with large dollars of other countries there. The Chinese have been making cast fakes for decades and many of them have infiltrated the U.S. numismatic community. This is one reason for the HPA or Hobby Protection Act being passed, which requires copies or replicas of genuine U.S. coins to be labeled as such.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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