Real or fake barber half dollar pop out?
NumisOxide
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Can't tell if this is an authentic piece? What do you guys think?
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As long as it came out of the mint like that, you're good to go.
Sure looks fake to me. The reverse picture is blurry, so that's difficult ... but everything I can see is a no go
“We are only their care-takers,” he posed, “if we take good care of them, then centuries from now they may still be here … ”
Todd - BHNC #242
The surfaces look odd to me too.
I looked again. Almost sure it's cast. Might not even be silver.
“We are only their care-takers,” he posed, “if we take good care of them, then centuries from now they may still be here … ”
Todd - BHNC #242
Todd, yeah it looks like pot metal.
That does not look authentic.... Better pictures would help. Cheers, RickO
They would. Unfortunately these are the sellers images.
Fake Fake Fake
Glad I didn't buy it. Thanks guys👍
Probably fake. Many of these modern repousse coins are made with coins from the Shanghai mint.
It could possibly be a genuine Barber Half Dollar that suffered some significant environmental damage (corrosion) and was cleaned prior to the embossing. I think the dies for that embossing are still around, and so this could be a modern push-out.
Back in the 1990s, a coin dealer told me that Chattanooga Coin Company had the original dies and that he tried to buy them but they wouldn't sell them. Those dies are definitely still around. I've seen Kennedy half dollar and Ike dollar pop-outs or push-outs. The Kennedy half dollars were gold plated. My theory is that the distortion caused the copper core to show so they were gold plated to provide a uniform color.
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