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Subject: Willow/NE Shilling is Phony
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 09:31:08 -0400
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From: mike hodder <mhodder@theworld.com>
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The Willow Tree Shilling struck over a New England Shilling that I
published recently is fake. About a week ago, I saw an obviously
counterfeit Willow Tree shilling that was struck from the same
dies as seen on the overstrike. If the Willow is fake the
overstrike has to be fake, too, and I'm guessing the New England
shilling undertype is fake, as well.
I've uploaded jpg illustrations of the fake Willow Tree Shilling
and the fake Willow/NE overstrike. If you compare the two, you'll
see they were struck from the same false Willow dies.What the
illustrations won't show is that the Willow coin is evenly thick
everywhere , shows no signs of the S-bend from having been
struck on a rocker press, and the edge shows it was made from
modern, machine rolled strip.
By themselves, the Willow Tree Shilling dies are not really
deceptive. The shilling I saw last week is on a non-deceptive
flan, too, being too round, too evenly thick, and it has a
rounded edge. I'm assuming the NE punches would also be
non-decepetive and an NE flan made by this counterfeiter would
also not be confused with the genuine. I don't think
sophisticated collectors would be fooled by these fake dies.
Beginners might, and I would not be surprised to see one or more
of these in non-specialist dealers cases at shows.
More deceptive is the overstrike. It fooled me and some others.
The flan was bent the way one would expect it to be, the edge
raised no concerns, and the way the Willow and NE designs were
blurred by the overstriking made them appear correct. The weight
was high, especially for a holed coin, but not outside the range
of observed weights for Massachusetts shillings.
The counterfeiter appears to be clever and experienced with
Massachusetts silver coins. His Willow/NE overstrike was designed
to fit into the known typological sequence and to represent a
coin whose existence might not be unexpected. He also realized
thatmaking such an overstrike gave him a unique coin which, if it
were accepted as genuine, would be very valuable.
I owe collectors an apology for my mistake, particularly Lou
Jordan and the other staff of the Colonial Newsletter, who
published the coin as genuine.
Mike Hodder
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