1776 Continental Curency - Real or fake???

[JoannaC-migration]

I'm going for authentication this week but of course I cant wait. Just by eyeballing, does anyone know if this coin is real or fake?

 

 

 

[PaulS.]

It appears to be a cast counterfeit, sorry.

 

 

-Paul

[JoannaC-migration]

I'm just curious, how can you tell? I've been reading all night

[PaulS.]

The extremely mushy details, pimply surfaces, and color as well. It doesn't look good at all.

 

 

-Paul

[Mr.Mcknowitall]

The extremely mushy details, pimply surfaces, and color as well. It doesn't look good at all.

 

 

-Paul

 

...and having seen a real example helps.

[BillJones]

The extremely mushy details, pimply surfaces, and color as well. It doesn't look good at all.

 

 

-Paul

 

Also the surfaces have an uneven bubbly look which is typical of a cast piece. I sorry I don't own a genuine piece to show you. It's just one of those things I never bought, and now when I ask for quotes at the shows, I get numbers that would require me to take out a second mortgage on my house.

 

Here is an early dollar, dated 1795, that is a struck, genuine coin. Note the differences in the surface fields.

 

[JoannaC-migration]

You're awesome. Thank you so much for your help!

[johnny9434]

The extremely mushy details, pimply surfaces, and color as well. It doesn't look good at all.

 

 

-Paul

yeah what he said^

[messydesk]

Yup. Bad.

[e1cnr]

with that much 'meat' on the coin, you would be able to read the states in the circles

[Nutmeg Coin]

Definitely a cast fake, and not a good one at that. There are so many of these floating around that collectors and dealers have come to expect that anything that shows up will be bogus.

[johnny9434]

nice 1795 coin ya go there bill jones

[WoodenJefferson]

There were literally thousands of these tokens made to celebrate the 1776-1976 Bicentennial, some were good reproductions others just mass produced junk.

 

Finding a real one out in the wild is like finding a chicken with teeth.