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Winston Zack
- Nov 24
- 1 min
Genuinely, Happy Thanksgiving!
I hope you all have a great, happy, festive Thanksgiving. With just 5 weeks left in the calendar year of 2022, I'll report that I've...
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Winston Zack
- Nov 14
- 1 min
Books Arriving Tuesday (11/15) Afternoon!!!
I was just informed from the shipping company that sometime tomorrow afternoon the books will arrive. If they arrive early enough in the...
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Winston Zack
- Nov 9
- 1 min
Bad Metal Silver - Book has Shipped from the Printer!
Simply put, the printing company shipped my order today. It has to travel at least 1,500 miles to get to me. I anticipate that will...
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Winston Zack
- Nov 4
- 2 min
Post-Baltimore Show Update
I had a chance to make it to the Baltimore show for a few days last week. The show seemed relatively active although attendance to the...
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Winston Zack
- Oct 15
- 1 min
Ctft 1861 3cS PCGS+CAC! For Sale...
I've decided to list for sale my 1861 Z8-T counterfeit 3cS graded XF45 by PCGS with a CAC green bean sticker. This is the only TPG-CAC...
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Winston Zack
- Sep 25
- 2 min
Book Status, New Varieties, New Inventory
Bad Metal Silver. 3cS to 25c update. The printing company has recently provided me with an update that they are very busy printing many...
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Winston Zack
- Aug 19
- 2 min
Book 1, 2 and 3 Updates!
Thank you to all of you that have preordered book 2 in the Bad Metal series, Bad Metal Silver. 3cS to 25c. I have updated the pre-order...
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Winston Zack
- Aug 6
- 2 min
Bad Metal is BACK! Pre-Order Notice.
Bad Metal is BACK! More coins. More history. More characters. Available for pre-order at $70, individually numbered and signed....
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lelboiselle
- Jul 19
- 1 min
Another one Caught
Another eBay find, looks like a Z2-L. Weight 4.89 grams, 20.66 mm diameter, 1.75 mm thick, specific gravity 8.73.
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Winston Zack
- Jul 3
- 2 min
Spring 2022 Counterfeit U.S. Coin Update
First and foremost, happy 4th of July weekend everyone. This is a long-overdue blog post so there is a lot in here that has been on my...
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Winston Zack
- Mar 24
- 2 min
X-Stamp of Condemnation
After the publication of Bad Metal: Copper and Nickel, additional examples of the documented counterfeit varieties in that book, along...
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lelboiselle
- Mar 19
- 1 min
Flea Market find
Bought this a fews years ago at a flea market in Connecticut. Good copy, has some raised bumps in the field in various locations, a dead...
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Winston Zack
- Feb 26
- 1 min
Counterfeit CBH Errors!
With the 300+ varieties of die struck counterfeit CBHs and the 1000's of examples which still exist, it should come as little surprise...
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Winston Zack
- Feb 20
- 1 min
Mexican Silver Counterfeits!
Many of you will be familiar with counterfeit Portrait 2 and 8 reales, but few are as familiar as the other denominations, such as the...
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Winston Zack
- Jan 8
- 1 min
Final Call! Bad Metal: Silver, 3cS to 25c
Hi all. Hope you had a great end to 2021 and 2022 is looking brighter. I wanted to update you all that the second book in my, now,...
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Winston Zack
- Dec 12, 2021
- 1 min
2021 Counterfeit CBH Census Almost Finalized
Back in August or September I started contacting folks about updating the counterfeit CBH census, a census that had not been updated in...
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Winston Zack
- Dec 4, 2021
- 2 min
5+ New Cast Counterfeit CBH Varieties in November!
The second-half of November was a whirlwind travel adventure for me. The first stop was to the American Numismatic Society (ANS) where...
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lelboiselle
- Dec 4, 2021
- 1 min
Bogus Morgan
Looks cast, There is a ridge on the reeding, considerable porosity also. The weight is 16.35 g, vs. 26.73 g, close in in diameter at...
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