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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Treashunt, post: 2164848, member: 6763&quot;]Until proved otherwise, this cannot be genuine.</p><p><br /></p><p>The obverse scratches seem to indicate that the piece is truly copper.</p><p><br /></p><p>If it was a copper planchet or blank cut from a copper strip using the dime size punch, then there would be clear reeding.</p><p><br /></p><p>It does appear to be larger, which cannot happen unless it is a broadstrike.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, it has none of the distortion associated with a broadstrike.</p><p><br /></p><p>In addition, it had a medallic rotation, which, while not impossible, would be one too many errors on one coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Therefore, sorry, but I have to feel that it is:</p><p><br /></p><p>1) a contemporary counterfeit.</p><p>or</p><p>2) a modern item that was passed off to a collector to cheat him.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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