Early American Copper Struck Counterfeits & Damaged Source Coins
Early American Coppers (EAC) posted on the club’s Facebook page “ Dark Side”, a fake 1796 “S-85” that he astutely identified from a recent internet listing, and as follow-up to that discussion I was able to post images of the discovered source coin apparently used to create the dies and the following struck “clones”. In that ensuing discussion I stated it is interesting how our research has evolved and paradigms have shifted through time; the first time I saw a “repaired” source coin was from the research of the fake 1793 “S-5” wreaths ( Penny-Wise, July 2016). That op...
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