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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jwt708, post: 2494211, member: 32619&quot;]Well not a CWT or merchant token but here&#039;s a counterfeit military trade token:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]528331[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>There is a seam around the edge and a filing mark from where it was broken from the sprue. The unevenness around the rim is not an artifact from photo-editing but how it actually looks. It has visible pits in the fields and devices that are not from corrosion. There are other issues with this token that raise red flags with me but the only reason they do is because of my experience with these types of tokens. In hand it doesn&#039;t feel right like too light, the size is off, the texture or maybe fabric of the token is wrong. The fact that it has no toning or discoloration is another issue. I&#039;m not sure I&#039;ve ever seen a token from the Vietnam War era that doesn&#039;t exhibit some corrosion or discoloration. Oh, and I consider the letters as being poorly formed with &quot;mushiness.&quot; There is also a strange crosshatch formation that goes over the entire surface of both the obverse and reverse. It&#039;s difficult to see in my picture but ever token the seller had from Bien Hoa exhibited this effect and I believe it is an artificat from the manufacturing process but I don&#039;t know what caused it. </p><p><br /></p><p>Notice that this token is unlisted in Cunningham however my collection is littered with tokens that were unlisted. Now Bien Hoa issued tokens similar to this one but they were struck in aluminum and did not include this denomination. That said, there are examples of genuine tokens that are unlisted in both type of metal and denomination except they don&#039;t exhibit the same issues.</p><p><br /></p><p>I collected over 300 tokens before getting my first fake. I always figured my collecting niche was safe as the overwhelming majority of tokens are sold for $10 or less. Well I was wrong. The same seller has sold and continues to sell tokens from this base. All of them are fakes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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