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Old fake or eBay fake?


prophet800

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I recently bought this off the dreaded eBay as a "detector find". It only cost four pound something with delivery so I knew it wasn't going to be anything worthwhile I was just a little curious to see what it would look like under all the muck. I gave it a quick clean as shown in the pics and to me it looks fake as fake can be. I googled about the coin and it says that these coins were heavily counterfeited at the time but do you think it's an old fake or a new fake?

This is just a curiosity thing, I'm not going to complain to the seller as it was less than a fiver and I can't be bothered with the hassle. Just wondering what your thoughts are.

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Is it a shilling?

I'm only aware of the half-crown being faked recently.

Is it silver? They aren't valuable enough to justify faking in silver IMO.

Why anyone would fake one in such poor condition?? Is it has been in the ground for such a long time to look like that, it will be genuine.

The truncation of the bust looks wrong to me and also the date, the 1's look wrong.

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