My parents are downsizing their home and recently they went through a large jar of change. They went to the local bank, and fed the coin into a coin counting machine. They brought the "rejects" home. One coin in the pile appealed to me and I brought it home and began to do some research. I was hoping those of you with more knowledge might give me some insight into what I have. Rather than describe the coin, I will let the pictures below do the talking.
Personnel opinion - cast copy of pine tree shilling. Just to make sure is it magnetic? What is it's size and weight?
It is not magnetic. It is somewhere between .95 and 1.00 inches on my calipers. On my kitchen scale (very much guesstimating here....about 7 grams)
It's an incredible story but it seems real enough to me. You do realize it's a very valuable coin if authentic?
Fake Weight should be around 4.1 grams. Sorry to say. Looks like a casting - porus appearance do a google on 'pine tree shilling' compare those to yours -
Yeah, I have done a number of searches on the google machine, and couldn't find anything quite like it. I figured that it was either a fake, or something so rare that no one had pictures of it. Agai, my kitchen scale was a really rough guesstimate on 7 grams. It may indeed be lighter.. (wishful thinking?) Oh well, fun to dream.
On coins like these that are heavily copied, there are usually several tell tale signs. One is weight. Most fakes are not made to specification. It is hard enough to make the copy besides most people do not walk around with a scale. Second is the appearance. these coins are usually cast versus struck. A close inspection of the surface, like your example, shows porous sections. Sorry but no retirement to Aruba for you
