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Do post photos of your hammered coins if you have any doubt. Hopefully they are all genuine but it is nice to get some reassurance.

Gosh!! Thank you guys. I purchased it from ebay last week. I had a niggling doubt about it, what with the porousness and it just didn't seem to have that silver noise you here when you drop it. I can see the copy sign now that it has been pointed out to me!! I only wonder how many of the rest of my hammered coins are fakes, ten or so in total. Anyway i cannot thank you guys enough. I will get on the case for a refund. Kind regards.

Follow Jerrys advice. Push for a refund , ebay will support you fully. Show them the link above that mikes posted. If you come unstuck post back here with any obstacles and amongst us we should be able to help.

Here you are Declan, the smoking gun... http://dorchesters.com/charles-i-shilling

Certainly a WRL fake with the logo deliberately partially obscured. Get your money back, or report the fraud to the police, this sort of thing is becoming all too commonplace. Jerry

I wanted to share this beautiful unique Celtic silver unit found by my detecting friend Peter a few weeks ago.and has been recorded on PAS ref; HAMP-FCA2F3 The coin will be sold in auction a little later this week by a well known auction house in London

Was it the coin from omega02? He states that he is selling it for a friend who found it metal detecting, ALL LIES I suspect. Reclaim your money through PayPal if he doesn't cough up, and report him to eBay. Through Paypal you should get any postage too. Jerry

My thoughts exactly. Either this has been sold on as it is by someone who genuinely didn't know or the 'WRL' has been deliberately removed in an attempt to deceive.

Hi Declan, I have seven or eight in various grades and none of them have surfaces which look like this one. I'm no hammered expert but my instincts are to think its shouting 'I'm a fake, and I don't give a damn who knows it!'. The colour is very reminiscent of the WRL replicas which often appear on ebay. Those usually have 'WRL' stamped onto them somewhere so I'm concerned about that (conveniently?) rubbed area at 5 o'clock on the reverse. I also think your asking in the first place suggests your own instincts are telling you this one isn't right. As I say, these are just my initial feelings, I'm sure one of the resident hammered coins experts will be able to confirm one way or the other very soon.

FAKE!!!

I had an email reply from Peter yesterday. He just to say that he has already retired and no longer involve in the cabinet making business even though they still uses his name. Peter still runs a coin dealership from the same premises at St Leonard were he use to make his cabinets.

I've seen a few copies of both G5 & G6 halfcrowns, but they have all been the right size. The reasons I thought the larger was the copy was the shorter serifs on the linked Gs and the C. The shape of the protrusion on the harp by the left Gs looks to be straight as well instead of being slightly curved.

For a start they are halfcrowns, not florins, but no. I assume the larger of the two is a copy, but god knows where it came from. China?

The two coins you show are half crowns which were worth 2 shillings and six pence . Terry

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