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The Hawaii dollars come as singles often, and in 5 coin sets less often. 5 coin sets can have various configurations since they're all private issues.

I'm putting my money on plated, or perhaps just coated in mercury. Highly unusual to have another planchet of the same specifications.

Lovely pieces, and first time I've seen a Scottish penny!

I'd say EF or EF-, and looks to be somewhat heavily cleaned.

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Congrats! I have to say on the flip side, I kind of feel sorry for those who are selling to that dealer, since a dealer who's giving stuff away would have almost certainly bought for even less, and when the time comes, I would hope that my collection has a better fate than that.

The new ones definitely add a weird dimension to the design, though they do make for a neat security features. I have to admit that I'm not too familiar with a lot of the RCM's newer products since they're now into the hundreds annually.

From the photos alone I wouldn't have touched this with a ten foot pole - sorry. It's either cast, or struck from dies made by casting - both signs that this is primarily made for the souvenir trade rather than the collector trade - lots of these floating around in Chinatowns and in markets throughout East Asia for $1-10, depending on how much the seller thinks they can get out of an buyer hoping to take a chance.

On a fake, any price is too high a price.

As an aside, buying from a seller who doesn't know what they have is hit and miss. But when they have Chinese dollars but no Chinese minors or other East Asian coins or notes to go along with them, the odds are 99.99% that the dollars are fake.

The style looks Algerian.

On English silver objects, there will usually be the full set of hallmarks (quality mark e.g. lion passant for 925/1000, assay office e.g. leopard head for London, date letter, and maker/sponsor) on a main part, and each part that could in theory be separated will have just the quality mark.

So on cigar boxes, usually the base will have a full set of marks and the top lid will have just the lion passant, and on an Albert chain, the full marks will be on the crossbar, and each of the links on the chain (!) will have a lion passant.

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As Arminius noted, it's a cast replica, and not a particularly good quality one at that.

There are some luxury makers like Bulgari who may use genuine pieces, but the majority of mass market pieces will be copies, the more expensive (e.g. ~ $50-100 retail in a tourist zone) ones often being made of 800 silver or better.

Neat - I don't see American trade dollars very often.

Neat! Are they still valid?

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If I'm not mistaken, it looks like there's some signs of soldering around the edge. Perhaps a fantasy piece made for the jewelry trade?

Hi! You might want to try posting under the exonumia forums and perhaps one of the resident medal / medallion experts may be able to ID it.

Welcome! A nice classic to start with :-)

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How would one assess lusture on a glass coin?

A lot of the new polymer notes in Britain are going for what in my opinion are rather absurd amounts. I would suggest taking whatever you can get for them while the novelty is still fresh and they're "hot" as I don't see it keeping up in the long run.

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I think that this was part of a set that was issued in the mid 20th century - I see random pieces now and then.