*Winner of the 2020 Numismatic Literary Guild (NLG) Best Specialized United States or Early American Coins book.
 
Buy the book and receive a contemporary counterfeit U.S. coin valued at approximately $50.  The contemporary counterfeit U.S. coin will be dated to the 19th century, and will either be a hand-made die or transfer die (no casts).  The counterfeit coin may include, but is not limited to, 3cS, Seated Dime, Seated Quarter, or a CBH.  The counterfeit coin will be chosen at random unless the type is specifically requested at time of purchase.  This is a limited time offer, subject to available supplies.
 
Bad Metal: Copper and Nickel Circulating Contemporary Counterfeit United States Coins
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 approximately 300 pages of information, much of which has never been published before. There are more approximately 200 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.