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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kevin McGonigal, post: 2145873, member: 72790&quot;]One of the things to look for on these Indian peace medals is the metal itself. The originals for powerful chiefs were of good coin silver, those for lesser notables were of solid brass. Pot metal, lead, junk indeterminate alloy were not used for these medals back then. (Native Americans were no fools. They knew good metal when they handled it).I have been a reenactor since the early 1970&#039;s. I have seen any number of replica coins from that Bicentennial period (1976) and it is the metal that is the dead give away. There was no attempt to deceive serious collectors, just the desire to give the reenactors the kind of material that soldiers of that period would have been carrying around in their haversacks and purses.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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