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<p>[QUOTE="The Eidolon, post: 3647166, member: 102103"][ATTACH=full]979537[/ATTACH] I got this chuck of copper at a coin shop in Amsterdam while on a trip last week. It was marked as a Netherland East Indies 2 Stuiver from 1810. My obsolete (1995) Krause guide says these should be 23.16 g, which is an improbably precise weight for an irregularly cut chuck of copper. Mine is 17 g. Krause mentions there are lightweight contemporary forgeries weighing about 6-10 g. Any guesses if this is: authentic, modern counterfeit, or contemporary counterfeit? I'm not in the Netherlands any more, so it's not like I could return it, but I'm curious. I don't know much about copper "bonk" money, and this is the first example I've come across.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="The Eidolon, post: 3647166, member: 102103"][ATTACH=full]979537[/ATTACH] I got this chuck of copper at a coin shop in Amsterdam while on a trip last week. It was marked as a Netherland East Indies 2 Stuiver from 1810. My obsolete (1995) Krause guide says these should be 23.16 g, which is an improbably precise weight for an irregularly cut chuck of copper. Mine is 17 g. Krause mentions there are lightweight contemporary forgeries weighing about 6-10 g. Any guesses if this is: authentic, modern counterfeit, or contemporary counterfeit? I'm not in the Netherlands any more, so it's not like I could return it, but I'm curious. I don't know much about copper "bonk" money, and this is the first example I've come across.[/QUOTE]
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