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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ian, post: 187370, member: 283&quot;]Thanks.</p><p><br /></p><p>It may well be stretching it to call that fake `contemprary&#039; . To be honest, i&#039;m not 100% sure either way. However, it wasn&#039;t made yesterday and it isn&#039;t typical of the counterfeits of the 1950&#039;s - 60&#039;s either. Hence my guess is that is was manufactured sometime between the mid 1808 and the early 1900&#039;s. It&#039;s the first (and only) fake of that type coin i&#039;ve come across to date .</p><p><br /></p><p>Some aspects of it are better than normal for a fake, for example the edge engrailing (obviously not shown) is nearly spot on and the silvering is a bit better than i&#039;ve seen. On the downside however, you quickly noticed the ear and the crown <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. Pretty damning, I agree. Joseph&#039;s mouth has also been re-styled.&nbsp; A closer comparison between the two will show that there&#039;s far more `wrong&#039;&nbsp; with the fake than there is `right&#039;.&nbsp; Nevertheless, some poor collector who hasn&#039;t seen a real one or who doesn&#039;t have reference to one might be sufficiently convinced (suckered) by it......especially if priced as a bargain (as is normally the case with people trying to palm off counterfeits).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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