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Fake SLQ?

AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,775 ✭✭✭✭✭

I saw this and was taken aback as I didn't know they were faking these too. Not my series but do you agree it's a fake?
bob
https://www.ebay.com/itm/1917-25C-Type-1-Standing-Liberty-Quarter/352422037261?ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649

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  • numismanumisma Posts: 3,877 ✭✭✭✭

    Not fake. It looks like a genuine 1917 Type 1 to me.

  • SmudgeSmudge Posts: 9,532 ✭✭✭✭✭

    What leads you to think it is fake? Anything will be faked except junk silver so far. It may be next.

  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,360 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Why do you think it may be fake?

    All glory is fleeting.
  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,775 ✭✭✭✭✭

    #numisma #291fifth #Smudge The shape of the lettering on the reverse looks odd. Look at OF, the O is not even round.
    bob :)

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  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,954 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Quite the naval for a circulated specimen.

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  • thefinnthefinn Posts: 2,656 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'd need to see the edge, but nothing jumps out and says it's fake. The letters were sculpted by hand, so they aren't perfectly done like now, which are done by a computer. And if there is any contact near the O, it could make it look odd.

    thefinn
  • LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 4, 2018 12:10PM

    Over priced piece of junk to me. RAW beat up EF details coin.
    And the more I look at it probably fake.


    A real one to compare it to. PCGS AU58

  • RogerBRogerB Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The "hex" punch above the eagle is distracting.

  • SmudgeSmudge Posts: 9,532 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Starting to see your point. Good comparison.

  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,775 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Look at the DOLLAR weakness in the fake. Real one has nice strong lettering, not mushy and skinny.
    oh well,

    bob :)

    Registry: CC lowballs (boblindstrom), bobinvegas1989@yahoo.com
  • ConnecticoinConnecticoin Posts: 12,889 ✭✭✭✭✭
  • jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 34,523 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I think it's just a banged up real one.

  • jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 34,523 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @AUandAG said:
    Look at the DOLLAR weakness in the fake. Real one has nice strong lettering, not mushy and skinny.
    oh well,

    bob :)

    So they faked the coin and then added a hex punch to the middle to make it look authentic?

  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,775 ✭✭✭✭✭

    So they faked the coin and then added a hex punch to the middle to make it look authentic?

    The Chinese will do anything to make them look good. They do do that with the CC dollars. Wouldn't put it past them.

    Good discussion.
    bob :)

    Registry: CC lowballs (boblindstrom), bobinvegas1989@yahoo.com
  • COINS MAKE CENTSCOINS MAKE CENTS Posts: 1,824 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'm really torn on this. In some ways it says real and in a few it says fake I dont know this has me stumped.

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  • goldengolden Posts: 9,643 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Fake!

  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,210 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @COINS MAKE CENTS said:
    I'm really torn on this. In some ways it says real and in a few it says fake I dont know this has me stumped.

    You can start a thread with virtually any coin and eventually one or more forum members will say it's counterfeit. :D

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  • jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 34,523 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @PerryHall said:

    @COINS MAKE CENTS said:
    I'm really torn on this. In some ways it says real and in a few it says fake I dont know this has me stumped.

    You can start a thread with virtually any coin and eventually one or more forum members will say it's counterfeit. :D

    Dealers sometimes say that if you look at enough coins everything starts to look fake. Especially once you've been burned once with a good fake, you overanalyze the same coins you used to just KNOW were good.

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It looks authentic to me.... just a well traveled silver coin.... Cheers, RickO

  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,360 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It isn't screaming "fake" to me. It is just screaming "pass".

    All glory is fleeting.
  • SLQSLQ Posts: 311 ✭✭

    The top 4 feathers under "UNITED" look clipped, not rounded. Strange.

  • gripgrip Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The texture of the toning make it look odd.

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