The story of the gold penny

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I'm going to put this thread here because the guy considers himself a sculptor, not a counterfeiter 

One afternoon in March 2007, Jack Daws stepped up to a newsstand in Los Angeles International Airport with a handful of change, including a counterfeit penny made of 18-karat gold that Mr. Daws, a Seattle artist, had fashioned.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/maker-learns-the-fate-of-a-penny-made-of-gold/?no_interstitial