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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Victor_Clark, post: 3510098, member: 10613&quot;]Deciding on whether a coin is official or unofficial is sometimes arbitrary and often based on a &quot;gut&quot; feeling. Pierre Bastien wrote that some of these coins probably came from “well organized work-shops.” It appears that mint workers may have been able to &quot;borrow&quot; official reverse dies and use them in their workshops. So it seems almost certain that sometimes you would not be able to tell unofficial from official. These are what I would call counterfeits though-- meant to deceive, while coins like the unofficial VLPP&#039;s that I posted above were never meant to fool people.</p><p><br /></p><p>The unofficial VLPP below would have fooled people unless they really scrutinized it or happened to be familiar with Siscian VLPP&#039;s. The size and weight are even in the average range at 18x19mm and 3.1gm.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]930819[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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