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<p>[QUOTE="Bayern, post: 4871899, member: 99002"]The group you have posted appear to all be contemporary to the late 18th century, but the OP's item is a more recently made product- most likely produced within the last 50 years, as has already been stated by several of us here. I just wanted to go into a little more detail with this post. If you look closely at the items in your picture and compare to the item in question you will notice a marked difference in design quality. Although some of the counters in your photo are not as well executed as others, they still all are superior in overall quality to the op's item. I have seen many modern copies of world coins, tokens, u.s. coins, etc., that all have this same look to them. That look consisting of a very inferior design quality, an artificial colouration and odd toning, often struck on a poor quality "pot metal" planchet, that often has portions of the base metal showing through a poor quality metal plating. Hope my post was helpful in what to look for to determine real vs. fake.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bayern, post: 4871899, member: 99002"]The group you have posted appear to all be contemporary to the late 18th century, but the OP's item is a more recently made product- most likely produced within the last 50 years, as has already been stated by several of us here. I just wanted to go into a little more detail with this post. If you look closely at the items in your picture and compare to the item in question you will notice a marked difference in design quality. Although some of the counters in your photo are not as well executed as others, they still all are superior in overall quality to the op's item. I have seen many modern copies of world coins, tokens, u.s. coins, etc., that all have this same look to them. That look consisting of a very inferior design quality, an artificial colouration and odd toning, often struck on a poor quality "pot metal" planchet, that often has portions of the base metal showing through a poor quality metal plating. Hope my post was helpful in what to look for to determine real vs. fake.[/QUOTE]
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