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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 695934, member: 4703&quot;]My guess is that someone using the same techniques that forum member Billzach uses to create hobo nickels worked on your coin, but with far less skill than our forum member!</p><p><br /></p><p>Notice the angle between the date and the top of the exurge, and the slightly off-center location of the date.</p><p><br /></p><p>Except for that date, of course, it is clearly a (genuine or counterfeit) French Indo-China Piastre - either <ul> <li>KM#5, 27.215 g, .900 silver, .7875 oz. ASW, originally dated between 1885 and 1895; or</li> <li>the ever-so-slightly debased KM#5a, 27 g, .900 silver, .7812 oz. ASW, originally dated between 1895 and 1928.</li> </ul><p>Depending on date and condition, if real it <i>used to be</i> worth somewhere between $25-500.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW you are absolutely correct about the mint mark.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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