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Congrats @pursuitofliberty . Glad to see you were able to find some newps. I have not located anything new in 3-4 months.

@JimTyler said:

@pcgsregistrycollector said:
Real no doubt

Bold statement for a raw trade dollar. Even if it’s real I wouldn’t buy that unless it was priced like a counterfeit. Then it would still be priced too high.

That is really harsh. JMHO!

@humanssuck said:

@CaptHenway said:

@humanssuck said:
I appreciate everyone's feedback, I'm very much out of my area of knowledege on this. I guess we'll send it in to PCGS and see what they say.

I am 99% sure that the piece is a known counterfeit. We can probably save you the fees and the shipping costs if you reshoot the coin until you get some better pictures, and try to get closeups of the date and the word LIBERTY.

I can get better pictures tomorrow. Out of curiosity, were the fakes of this date at least made from gold?

Yes, they were made from an alloy with a similar percentage of gold. In fact, often it'a actually a higher percentage of gold than federally issued coins.

@rec78 said:

@lermish said:
The chops are not right except for the large one above the eagle's head.

Hard to be 100% definitive on the coin with those pictures but I don't see anything that stands out right away.

Nevertheless, because of the dubious chops, I wouldn't be comfortable giving it the all clear without an in hand investigation.

I remember a time when chop marked trade dollars sold for more then the non-chop marked coins,
until someone took advantage of this and put fake chop marks on unmarked coins.

At one time Trade Dollars with chops were considered to be damaged and sold for a sharp discount.

I would try to image the coin clearly with a cell phone. Like the Captain and others, Im over 95% that it's not authentic, but your images are too blurry to be certain. Clear cell phone pictures might save you at least $100 And several months of time, but it's your decision.

I would never buy a raw $3 gold piece.

I'll guess MS67+ and if it weren't stickered by CAC I very well might have guessed MS68.
Said another way, I'll be shocked it the coin grades less than 67.