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Subject: Re: [Colonial Numismatics] John Louis sent you this eBay item: VERY RARE IRIS...
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Thanks for the lead on PW article on Rosa. I will get
the CD.
Thanks,
John
--- vacoinage@aol.com wrote:
> John, Peter Rosa owned and operated Becker
> Reproductions which made copies
> of colonial coins from the 50's? thru the 70's. I
> think but I am not sure that
> he was responsible for both the common non-deceptive
> copies as well a family
> known as Dories (sp?) Duplicates which are pretty
> deceptive at first glance.
> There was an article on Mr. Rosa in Penny Wise a few
> years back. I have a St.
> Pats "Farthing" in white metal aka pot metal aka
> speilter (sp?) this is a
> cheep alloy used for quick casting of light parts,
> sculpture etc. The coin is
> made to resemble the St. Pats. "Shilling." As an
> assumption on my part I would
> think copper plated examples are also to be found
> as "Farthings" and brass
> plated for the gold. I think that he also did
> copies of the "Halfpence." I
> think there was a list of all the copies in CNL
> years ago. Alan
>
John N. Lupia, III
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