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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jwt708, post: 3344000, member: 32619&quot;]The tokens the fakes are trying to copy would have been struck. The counterfeits show signs of casting. I&#039;m also not sure what metal they&#039;re made out of but in hand they feel lighter that the brass of the originals. The fields all have the same weird cross hatch effect going on and the fake from my collection has a visible seam - can be seen in the 4:00 - 8:00 position on the obverse and the 11:00 - 12:00 on the reverse. What you cannot see in the picture is the filed edge on mine from where the casting sprue was removed. </p><p><br /></p><p>In my opinion the first fake was artificially damaged to make it look real. My token did not have much of an applied patina, but just about every other I&#039;ve seen looks like the below. The seller from Vietnam claimed they were found burried in a river I believe. </p><p><br /></p><p>The standard references do not identify a token from Bien Hoa in this denomination or material. That alone isn&#039;t enough to condemn it a fake because there are plenty of unlisted tokens and denominations the Cunningham and Bows missed. I don&#039;t have Curto but the other references are more complete.</p><p><br /></p><p>I hope that helps![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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