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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;serafino, post: 2310002, member: 74574&quot;]I can give you some related theory on</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>There are some who collect contemporary period fakes from back in that era. </p><p>&nbsp;I collect &quot;Kingdom of the Two Sicilies&quot; 120 Grana silver Crowns that cirulated in Naples and Sicily from 1735-1859.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;And you see many of these genuine Crowns will have heavy scratches on the reverse and they are called &quot;adjustment marks&quot; used by merchants back in that era to check if they were a real coin and not silver plated bronze fakes. Similar to the way the Chinese used chop marks on Trade Dollars.&nbsp; Some of these Sicilian made period fakes were well made and some people collect and display them with their real coins for comparison.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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