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Morgan authenticity

ncc74656ncc74656 Posts: 22 ✭✭
edited April 19, 2019 2:58PM in U.S. Coin Forum

Hi

I am a UK based collectors generally buying British coins, but I am venturing into starting a US coin type collection.

I bought an 1885 Morgan Dollar on ebay from a UK seller recently. On initial inspection I was really pleased with the coin. But I have been learning about morgans and the problem with fakes.

I have put it on the electronic food scales in the kitchen it said 26g. I have tried a very strong magnet, there is no attraction at all but when I move the magnet over it I feel ever so subtlely some kind of interference in the movement of the magnet. I have also learnt there are fakes which are silver ans weigh correctly.

Please could I ask your seasoned eyes to look over my pictures? On the face there is what looks like slight rusting or oxidation that you can see in some light or angles but which then disappears at other angles.

Thanks in advance,

A


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