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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marshall, post: 1061140, member: 21705&quot;]There are 4 authorized original Halves and about 500 Restrikes which should be underweight because they were first coined, then the reverses smoothed, and then restruck. Then there are about a million souvenirs in a great range of artistic merit reproduced from those. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now that gives you odds, not authentication.&nbsp; IF an example were authentic, it might be found in Mexico since some rebels did go there after the war and they might have been interested in a restrike in the 1880&#039;s when they were produced. It would be quite a stretch to think an original, but unauthorized, piece might have been presented to a Mexican official considering we were still only about 15 years removed from the Mexican War.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then again, it was the Confederacy who was seeking allies, including Mexico, so who knows.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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