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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JBK, post: 1242429, member: 1101&quot;]I agree wholeheartedly with your assessment of what might be considered &quot;authentic&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>A modern one done for the &quot;tourist trade&quot; (or collectors on eBay) would, in my opinion, be &quot;fake&quot;.&nbsp; One done in the era of use by someone who was expressing an opinion would be &quot;authentic&quot;. (The RIRA coins seem to be modern/current, so the test woudl be who did it and for what purpose).</p><p><br /></p><p>I might even extend the &quot;authentic&quot; label to coins produced by someone who might have been making a profit selling them to those who wanted to distribute them to further their cause or promote their opinion.&nbsp; (This scenario seems unlikely, but I offer it since I have what might be considered an example of something like this - a French coin produced in the manner of the &quot;SEDAN&quot; counterstamped coins, but done by someone with artistic skill who modified the design with specialized tools -perhaps a jeweler producing these for profit, contemporary to the era of the political climate that was represented by the alterations).</p><p><br /></p><p>I will have to dig out my suspect Irish coins - they had characteristics similar to what you deacribed - maybe the same person is still at work. On my coins, opposing sides were represented by counterstamps that weere earily similar in layout and letter placement. (They were cheap enough so that I couldl buy them for reference purposes).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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