BAD METAL

After the publication of Bad Metal: Copper and Nickel, additional examples of the documented counterfeit varieties in that book, along...

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...

With the 300+ varieties of die struck counterfeit CBHs and the 1000's of examples which still exist, it should come as little surprise...

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...

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,...

Can anyone please attribute this piece?

Back in August or September I started contacting folks about updating the counterfeit CBH census, a census that had not been updated in...

The second-half of November was a whirlwind travel adventure for me. The first stop was to the American Numismatic Society (ANS) where...

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...

I've just learned that the settings on this website limit who can write blogs, and that if others want to contribute I need to invite...

I was recently contacted about sharing the following cast counterfeit Capped Bust dime dated 1829. No additional information was...

Earlier this year I was contacted by a metal detectorist from Maine. He found this website after conducting research on an item he...

The Counterfeit CBH census is in full swing! If you would like to participate, but have not been contacted about it, send me an email at...

For years, Larry Schmidt has conducted a counterfeit CBH census through the cccbhcc.com website. In the transition from cccbhcc.com to...

This will be a short, teaser blog post. Recently, a collector brought to my attention a few new hand-made, die-struck contemporary...

Over the last three weeks I've been obsessively researching and writing more and more about counterfeit CBHs for the next Bad Metal book,...

Let me know your answer in the comments section. Feel free to explain why it is your favorite variety too! One of my favorites is 1838...

Just a short post and note that I have begun making updates to the 'mobile' version of this website. This has been long overdue and I...

It is always exciting when a new hand-made, die struck circulating contemporary counterfeit (CCC) U.S. coin is documented. And in my...

A fellow collector and myself have been having an on-and-off discussion about how to properly designate an obverse die used to strike two...