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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1365049, member: 19463&quot;]I certainly see evidence that it is not an official host coin but it is not a &#039;cast&#039; copy.&nbsp; You can not cast Sheffield plate.&nbsp; The &#039;real&#039; fakes as discussed in the link I posted were struck from fake dies.&nbsp; The article mentions that there are some real counterstamps used on fake hosts and those would seem to me to be the most interesting of the choices.&nbsp; I&#039;d think they should be worth more than the real Spanish coins.&nbsp; It would seem to be a place where a hardcore collector interested in the matter would want a real coin, a fake but unmarked coin, a real c/m on real coin, a real c/m on fake and a fake c/m on fake but I&#039;m not sure who out there is qualified to make the call between the last two groups.&nbsp; To me, the part of this that is interesting is the note that the first fakes were made with the support of the British government to destabilize the Spanish economy.&nbsp; Does that make them quasi-official English coins?&nbsp; I don&#039;t collect modern coins but this is the sort of thing that could make me look past my ordinary limits.&nbsp; The idea of the c/m makes the coin interesting but the plated version is even more so.&nbsp; I hope you find a buyer who will appreciate it rather than thinking of it as a fake.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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