Hello folks,
First, thank you to Jeff
Clark and Joe Sermarini for sending me a link to this discussion.
To me, from the photo, I can't tell if this is struck or
cast, but it certainly looks nothing even close to my coin. The
style of the
portrait is terrible (too high relief, disproportionate devices), lettering is off (the
legend isn't even the same as mine and has different breaks), fields look terrible (badly smoothed with
fake surface
silvering?) and overall looks like a really amateurish attempt at copying my coin from the image on my site. Not that I didn't expect someone to come up with another example of my coin or at least a copy of it, but I'm surprised it has taken this long for one to turn up and for it to be so far off from mine.
Still, it would be interesting to know who made this one.
--Beast