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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 1970672, member: 57463&quot;]Right.&nbsp; Those are &quot;Fugio Cents&quot; based on the paper money printed by the firm once owned by Benjamin Franklin and run by his partner, David Hall.&nbsp; (Wikipedia here:<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugio_Cent" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugio_Cent" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugio_Cent</a> and <a href="http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.H142.k-ead.xml" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.H142.k-ead.xml" rel="nofollow">American Philosophical Society link</a>.)&nbsp; Your coin also has the same figures but it is a replica of a dollar coin that never was made.&nbsp; Originally, Congress authorized these as silver dollars.&nbsp; Only copper patterns were made.&nbsp; Then, 100 years later, for the 1876 Centennial of the United States numismatist Montroville Dickeson made all kinds of copies of colonial coins, including these...&nbsp; So it lay... until about 1963 when someone bought Dickeson&#039;s dies and made a million (or a billion) more and sold them with a fullpage ad in <i>Coin World</i>.&nbsp; As if that were not bad enough, the Boy Scouts of America were awash with patriotism and they ordered a zillion of their own for their kids.</p><p><br /></p><p>It might have ended there...</p><p><br /></p><p>But since then, people have used the copies and copies of copies of those <b>machine-struck</b> coins to made molds for <b>casting</b> even more.&nbsp; Yours looks like a cast coin, poured into a mold, made from &quot;pot metal&quot; of tin and/or lead. You can tell by the tiny bubbles that give it a &quot;soapy&quot; appearance.</p><p><br /></p><p>Disappointing as that must be, you know, for the price of a very common high-grade Morgan Dollar, like a couple hundred dollars or so, you can own an actual genuine US Colonial Note, even signed by a Signer of the Declaration, Articles, or Constitution; or you can own an actual colonial coin of the time, perhaps from New Jersey.&nbsp; It might not be pocket money (it is not for me, I assure you), but you toss your change in a jar every night and you can buy one in a year.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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