Russia 1988 Disarmament Ruble/Dollar Piedfort or Planchet Error?

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I found a example of the 1988 Soviet Peace Committee "Disarmament Coin" in a dealer's junk box which is either a piedfort or an error. As shown in the picture, it's about 1.5 times the normal width (6 vice 4 mm) and it weighs 16.5 grams vice the normal 9.2 grams. Krause (https://www.ngccoin.com/price-guide/world/russia-ruble-dollar-x-21-1988-cuid-1105971-duid-1554666) doesn't show a listing for a piedfort, so is it a planchet error? The top of the token also appears to be slightly beveled when compared with the standard token. Is anyone familiar with this variety?

This is known forgery made, according to the rumors, in the city of Podolsk by local gypsies somewhere between 1989 and 2008 (?). The dies are different and probably the easiest way to distinguish is to look at the fonts - the forgery has the wider font lines, almost like a "bold" compared to the original. There is a lot of forgeries on Russian numismatic market - they were mass-produced in early 90s because of very high initial interest to this token. Most of forgeries are made out of aluminum versus aluminum-titanium alloy used for original issue.
Also, according to the information from the Russian numismatic sites, there are 2 variants of the original. One was issued in USSR and comes with the certificate or on a kind of coin card with a picture of the missile on it. Second version - again, according to some rumors - was made in US and has a serial number on the edge. I have no clue if the US version came with any kind of a certificate.

Just by the way, if you decide that you don't want it any longer - let me know, I'll gladly swap it with you.(;0
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Thanks glykan, I had no idea someone would forge such an inexpensive item. I heard when these originally went on sale, they could be purchased for the equivalent of a few dollars in Russia. Thus, a forgery never occurred to me.
Initially, they've issued strictly as no-value tokens and we're simply given away for free. Than one US company bought quite a lot of them and started selling them in US for $8 - which immediately peaked the interest in USSR. It was still 1988-1989 and this token was one of very few things which one could (potentially) sell for hard currency. So, the demand soared which, in turn, lead to manufacturing of a lot of copies - strictly speaking you can't call them "forgeries" since the original one is not a legal tender.
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