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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robp, post: 21092276, member: 96746&quot;]Thank you. You can buy the James if you want (hint).</p><p><br /></p><p>Running short of imaged shillings here.</p><p>1911 proof</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1542136[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>A pair of Charles I F3/1 shillings, the left one genuine and the other not. Obverses and reverses shown to compare the differences. 14 or 15 years ago there was a spate of copies appearing in the market which were eventually traced to a few people in the north of England, in Blackpool and West Yorkshire.</p><p><br /></p><p>I acquired the left hand coin on ebay in 2004, so the copies were likely made around the turn of the millennium. The difference is that the left one weighs 5.79g and the copies anything from 4.2 to 5.3g. They are also porous in appearance, being casts. The copies are made from 2 halves joined together resulting in a seam around the edge. Identification is made easier because the flan is slightly wavy at 6 o&#039;clock, so you get a distinct view of the join in the notch where there is insufficient metal on the obverse half due to a raised lump on the mould due to the depression in the flan. I wrote an article to this effect in the Numismatic Circular in 2010. Other coins were copied, but I don&#039;t have images of them to hand and this is a shilling thread.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1542137[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1542139[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1542140[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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