Third Reich fantasy or not?

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My research on this token is showing mixed results. Some claim it is a fantasy issue (mainly because of the spelling of the word "kantinegeld". Others are stating that there are zinc counterfits but that the brass ones are legitimate issues. Just wondering if anyone on numista has any insights. One of the things that puzzles me is the surface striations, usually from metal flow during striking, however I have mostly seen this from medals struck in the 1970's. You can see the striations most clearly on the 50 reichspfennig side.

25.1mm diameter, weight is 8.4 grams, believe it to be brass.
reeded edge / two die cracks radial, 1st to left of "a" in Kantinegeld and 2nd going through "i" in Kantinegeld. 2.38mm thick.

Our catalogue seems to only have the zinc (?) version.

This zinc one was sold for 200 Euros by a reputable dealer, so it's most likely that it is authentic.

Note that yours seems to have the same die crack above the i of Kantinegeld as the two examples on this page. This is a good sign.
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agreed on the dealer versions. Here are my wondering thoughts. The numista version doesn't have some of the die marks that can be seen on the dealer versions and neither does mine. I don't know enough about the metals but I wonder if zinc presses at a lower pressure thus less pronounced die cracks. The numista version seems to have pits from casting? Again I don't know enough about zinc to say that definitively. The die cracks in all 3 versions seem to be in the exact same spot, meaning 1 set of dies for all minted or a design flaw causing the design to crack in the exact same location or copies of copies of copies?

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