Contemporary Counterfeits
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contemporary counterfeit: a fake made close to the date that appears on the coin.
Continental Dollars: large coin struck in 1776, usually in Pewter, considered by many to be the first U.S. Silver Dollar.
contemporary counterfeit A coin, usually base metal, struck from crudely engraved dies and made to pass for face value at the time of its creation.
Contemporary Counterfeits
Cheerios "Millennium Penny"
World Coins - 1600AD to the Present
Themes ...
The abundance of contemporary counterfeit Bolivian coinage, both of mint and non-mint origin, is sufficient to allow the creation of a sizable collection.
The result was a number of contemporary counterfeits of the ring dollar and dump, a few of which are illustrated by Mira and Noble.
The discovery of the contemporary counterfeit status of the 1896-O, 1900-O, and 1902-O Micro O Morgan dollars came about as PCGS experts studied an unusually high number of these coins that recently were submitted to PCGS for certification.
Generally crudely cast, it is almost certain these are contemporary counterfeits, and probably the type referred to in the official Han records as being in circulation prior to 180 BC, ...
Noe 13, 14, 31 and possibly Noe 12 are now considered to be contemporary counterfeits. Noe lists seventeen obverse and nine reverse dies, of which he says four reverse dies were used concurrently in a number of different combinations.
"Contemporary Counterfeit Capped Bust Half Dollars" by Keith R. Davison." Yes, counterfeit coins. One hundred and fifty eight pages of "KNOWN" counterfeit Capped Bust Half Dollars. This book was used in this article.
Whether these were authorized local mints or contemporary counterfeits is not certain. They can be recognized by style which ranges from nearly as good as the Rome product to wild and crude productions.
Trajan 98 -117 CE, AR Denarius (3.18 g.) Barbarous copy.
Obv: Laureate, head right.
Rx: Figure with staff possibly imitating Providentia.
Contemporary counterfeit most likely. Ex: Allistair Makcay ...
the fact that Southern states and banks could issue their own notes, counterfeiting was a major problem for the Confederacy. The average Southern citizen would be hard pressed to tell a real note from a fake. Many of these contemporary counterfeits ...
finance department, and in 1783 and 1785 large numbers of copper cents were struck in Birmingham based on the design of the silver Nova Constellatio patterns. The 1786 Nova Constellatio copper is believed to be a contemporary counterfeit: only a few ...
 See also: Counterfeit, Revers, Reverse, Coin, Coinage
  
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