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<p>[QUOTE="davidh, post: 453529, member: 15062"]There is not a single detail on your coin that matches a genuine coin. The fonts are wrong, the fonts are the wrong size, the sun and rays are in the wrong position, the oval with the plow is in the wrong place, etc, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yours is a copy made around 1961 by the Robert Bashlow Co, Inc. They were made in Bronze (5000 pcs), Silver (2000 pcs) and Goldine (3000 pcs) versions and are relatively rare today. The three versisons were all the same except that the silver one had a small S at the bottom of the reverse side. Some may also have been struck in white metal (zinc). A full set would run you about $400-600 today although they were originally sold for about $15 for all three. There are currently a few on ebay.</p><p><br /></p><p>The picture that you have shown here is the same picture (not just a different picture of the same coin) that was in the Februray 2008 Bowers and Merena Auction. Did you buy that coin, or are you spoofing us? If you did buy it, you should have gotten all relevant information from them. <a href="http://www.bowersandmerena.com/auctions/lot_detail.aspx?auctionno=13080&SessionNo=1&LotNo=32" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.bowersandmerena.com/auctions/lot_detail.aspx?auctionno=13080&SessionNo=1&LotNo=32" rel="nofollow">http://www.bowersandmerena.com/auctions/lot_detail.aspx?auctionno=13080&SessionNo=1&LotNo=32</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="davidh, post: 453529, member: 15062"]There is not a single detail on your coin that matches a genuine coin. The fonts are wrong, the fonts are the wrong size, the sun and rays are in the wrong position, the oval with the plow is in the wrong place, etc, etc. Yours is a copy made around 1961 by the Robert Bashlow Co, Inc. They were made in Bronze (5000 pcs), Silver (2000 pcs) and Goldine (3000 pcs) versions and are relatively rare today. The three versisons were all the same except that the silver one had a small S at the bottom of the reverse side. Some may also have been struck in white metal (zinc). A full set would run you about $400-600 today although they were originally sold for about $15 for all three. There are currently a few on ebay. The picture that you have shown here is the same picture (not just a different picture of the same coin) that was in the Februray 2008 Bowers and Merena Auction. Did you buy that coin, or are you spoofing us? If you did buy it, you should have gotten all relevant information from them. [url]http://www.bowersandmerena.com/auctions/lot_detail.aspx?auctionno=13080&SessionNo=1&LotNo=32[/url][/QUOTE]
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