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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed23, post: 2134273, member: 32117&quot;]Sorry, Tom B, but your answers were short, curt and ones that cut him off at the knees. He is NOT a collector. He wants to learn something about a coin he found, which is one of the reasons a lot of people become interested in coin collecting. He wants to know where he can learn more about the continental currency coin, regardless if it&#039;s fake or not, so take a moment and talk to him like you would any customer of your coin shop who was interested in what you have.</p><p><br /></p><p>There was a Continental Dollar coin, about the size of a Spanish milled dollar, that looked much like yours. If you want to read about it you can find info at:&nbsp; <a href="http://www.coins.nd.edu/ColCoin/ColCoinText/CC-Dollar.1.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coins.nd.edu/ColCoin/ColCoinText/CC-Dollar.1.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.coins.nd.edu/ColCoin/ColCoinText/CC-Dollar.1.html</a> I never dismiss things as easily as others and suggest you take it to a local coin dealer to examine in hand. A story that appeared in Coin World about a year ago told of a man who carried a Continental Dollar coin in his wallet for 40 years as a &quot;lucky piece&quot; before showed it to a coin dealer who had the good sense to tell him to send it to a grading company to check. He had bought it a yard sale for $2 and thought it worthless since it was pewter and not silver. Turned out it was authenticated, graded at XF40, and he sold it for $119,000. Now I&#039;m not suggesting your coin is the same, but the above article gives dimensions and weight of a genuine coin, which is the first step one takes to verify a coin is real or not. If it passes that test then have someone who knows more about coins than you do examine it, they can explain to you why they believe it is fake, or not, by pointing out details that indicate why they say what the do about it.</p><p><br /></p><p>But even as a copy it still has value as I watched a coin, I was sure was a fake, sell for over $200 on eBay about a week ago. I don&#039;t know anyone who can&#039;t use a little extra ... but I would be careful selling a fake coin as there are laws against it. So even if it is a fake it can always be donated to a local school to use as a history lesson aide, and you can always write off the value seen on eBay as a tax deduction ... be sure to get a receipt, and a copy of the coin listing on eBay to support your valuation in case you get audited; THIS is the legal way to gain value for a fake coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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