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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bzcollektor, post: 402578, member: 3241&quot;]I own a copy of &quot;Early Half Dollar Die Varieties&quot; Revised Edition by Al C.Overton (1970 Colorado Springs)</p><p><br /></p><p>Let me regress.</p><p><br /></p><p>Back in 1970 I had bought a collection of about a dozen or so Bust Halves from a &quot;Local Dealer&quot; All were really, really nice coins VF-XF no problem coins, including an 1824 O-103 (over various dates). I look for this coin till this day.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, The same week I bought this collection, I bought Al Overton`s book.&nbsp; One of these coins looked funny. Brassy looking, not quite right. It was a reeded edge type obverse (30 mm) struck on an 1830`s planchet(32.5 mm) My Overton book told me so.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was really ****ed off ( I was 17) and confronted my local dealer about the &quot;countrfeit&quot; coin. I made him refund the about $13 I paid for it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hmmmmm, I wish I had kept it. It was a contemporary (Made Back Then) counterfeit.&nbsp; I thought he was trying to pull one over on me. He had no clue. It was a coin he bought in a collection, and then sold to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>These contemporary (Made back in the day) counterfeits are collectibles in themselves.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will buy this book, if I find it.....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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