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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Aidan Work, post: 183979, member: 1824&quot;]Ian,I have seen a few brass fakes of the &#039;Bull Head&#039; 1/2 Crown in my time.The most deceptive fake I was landed with was a fake Irish 6/- piece a few years back.Fortunately,it was an expert in the Wanganui Numismatic Society who spotted it,as I had brought it along to the annual Levin Interclub meeting to show.Fortunately,the guy who I had bought it off was at the meeting,so he did the right thing by taking it back &amp; letting me have NZ$125 worth of British Commonwealth bank notes,as I had originally paid NZ$125 for the dud &#039;coin&#039;.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are 2 types of fake coins that would be of interest to me - the contemporary forgeries of the traders&#039; tokens that were put into circulation at the same time as the original tokens,&amp; the extremely scarce Connaught 1d.,which is a brass contemporary forgery of the extremely rare English King Edward VI 1/- that was released into circulation as a coin.The pink Coincraft catalogue lists the Connaught 1d. with a price (in Pounds Sterling,of course) as a proper Irish coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Any deceptive forgeries do not interest me at all.If someone tried to offer me what looks like a Canadian 1911 silver $1,I would reject it,as it is certainly a forgery of an extremely rare pattern coin worth several hundred thousand Dollars (both U.S. &amp; Canadian).</p><p><br /></p><p>Aidan.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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