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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Circus, post: 1804791, member: 51195&quot;]My meaning is that like with fakes, there are people that are taking coins out in the yard and shooting them today and since people started collecting stuff. Circus/carnival WWshow collectors all want to think that they have the general articles. With Flea bay and the silly prices some people ask. I could even give the a cert of genuineness with about 20 minutes of computer work.</p><p><br /></p><p>I had friends that ran a small general store couple of gas pumps and antiques. When their kids were small dad would help them cast some musket balls and bullets of the style from the civil war. Take the out in the yard and bury them for a couple of months, after wetting down good. they always had a batch resting in the soil. They would dig them up and put them in an old cigar box with a crudely written child like sign. &quot;Found locally cast civil war mold balls and bullets&quot;. Now the mold was from pre-civil war era. So they weren&#039;t lying! Charged .50 cents for the balls and .75 cents for the bullets.&nbsp; They sold&nbsp; a sh*t load of them over the years, and they were on the outskirts of&nbsp; fight area in Va. and they were over the mountain in West by god Va.</p><p><br /></p><p>The people that bought them thought they were getting a deal. And the kids got candy money. I was there when a slimmy civil war dealer, came in and picked up a hundred balls and bullets I had made the weekend before, He was selling them for a lot more telling people that they were from farms on the out skirts of major battles that are national parks.</p><p>The guy was really bad news he would try to screw my friend when he was buying uniforms, guns and bayonets along with swords etc. He was the one that always end up on the short end.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since the standard sales disclaimer was &quot;well the family says this belong to unk Silas etc and he was in the civil war. of course being a local I have to take their word and not call them liars&quot; I never asked if the stuff was real or other, and he never told me.</p><p>So since I didn&#039;t pick it up after it was shot, I would say if it was real.</p><p><br /></p><p>By the way how many do you want? with the new qt&#039;s shells and a dirt box in the shop, I can supply as many as you want for .50 above the cost of the year of the coins.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>That is what I mean by faux.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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