I don't know that the token is necessarily a fake. The description that you had in your auction about how it happened didn't seem quite right after closer reading.
It looks like a minted token was already sitting in the die, another minted token slipped, fell, or was otherwise moved into position over the other minted but not yet ejected token and the coining press sruck again. The right side of the token in your scan shows expansion to an out-of-round shape. That would be expected as such an occurrance would probably break the tooling in the coining press.
I suppose you could imitate such a scenerio if you had access to a coining press. I probably could have done it if I wanted to almost 30 years ago when working in a factory that had coining presses in the manufacturing line.
I'd be interested in knowing why your token expert is relatively sure that your token is a fake.
Bob
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