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<p>[QUOTE="PaddyB, post: 3068874, member: 40017"]I can give you no advice on who to get to look at it in Australia. If you take some good pictures and post them here you will get some feedback on condition and value. I would say that they have to be pretty excellent condition to get good money, and most make much less.</p><p><br /></p><p>The term "Evasion" is used for loose copies generally struck in the US around Independence. They are usually clearly NOT the same as Regal coins. Non-regal counterfeits were also made in England, and that is a different collecting area. Counterfeiting at that time was a Capital offence, so making a loose copy that was obviously not regal made it not a counterfeit and so (hopefully) evaded the hangman's noose! Hence, I presume, "Evasion".</p><p><br /></p><p>If yours is Regal, which we will be able to tell you with pictures, dimensions and weight, we will be able to give you a good idea of value. (If it is low, I recommend keeping it as a family heirloom!)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="PaddyB, post: 3068874, member: 40017"]I can give you no advice on who to get to look at it in Australia. If you take some good pictures and post them here you will get some feedback on condition and value. I would say that they have to be pretty excellent condition to get good money, and most make much less. The term "Evasion" is used for loose copies generally struck in the US around Independence. They are usually clearly NOT the same as Regal coins. Non-regal counterfeits were also made in England, and that is a different collecting area. Counterfeiting at that time was a Capital offence, so making a loose copy that was obviously not regal made it not a counterfeit and so (hopefully) evaded the hangman's noose! Hence, I presume, "Evasion". If yours is Regal, which we will be able to tell you with pictures, dimensions and weight, we will be able to give you a good idea of value. (If it is low, I recommend keeping it as a family heirloom!)[/QUOTE]
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