Winner of the 2020 Numismatic Literary Guild (NLG) Best Specialized United States or Early American Coins book.
This ground-breaking book is the first in a series of three planned publications on circulating contemporary counterfeit U.S. coins. This first book extensively covers the history of U.S. coin counterfeiting from the late 18th to the end of the 20th century. In addition, it also includes an extensive analysis on counterfeit copper (half-cents, large cents, small cents, two cents) and copper-nickel (three-cents, five cents) alloyed denominations, their history, the known varieties, the counterfeiters who made them, and much more.
This book has more than 300 pages of information, much of which has never been published before. There are more than 170 large, professional, high-quality, full-color images of almost every known variety of hand-made, die struck contemporary counterfeit copper and copper-nickel U.S. coin variety.
Bad Metal - Copper and Nickel Counterfeits
***Inquire about bulk order pricing of 5 or more books.
This ground-breaking book is the first in a series of three planned publications on circulating contemporary counterfeit U.S. coins. This first book extensively covers the history of U.S. coin counterfeiting from the late 18th to the end of the 20th century. In addition, it also includes an extensive analysis on counterfeit copper and copper-nickel alloyed denominations, their history, the known varieties, the counterfeiters who made them, and much more.