Want to see an X ??
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A friend of mine has an antique shop here in town. From time to time folks come in with a family collection of stuff with some coins involved.
He called me up yesterday asking about spot price and how to make a fair offer that kept him safe... there were 79 assorted Morgans, 8 of them were AU/UNC, about a dozen were XF-ish pre-21 and the rest 21,2 & 3 Morgans & Peace.
There was $58 worth of assorted junk silver and about half a ziplock baggie full of foreign stuff.
In the bag of foreign, my friend pulls out a $2.5 Indian, a $10 Lib and this $5 Dahlonega piece.
I stopped in today to check it out and my first thought was whoa, this looks really original! I put a loupe to it and turned it over and BLAM - a Big, Fat X is scrawled on the reverse. 
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it's real gold
A bit sad, but totally amazing at the same time
Mr_Spud
Right? He pulled this and two others from a bag of foreign junk... Crazy. I'm going to have PCGS certify it for him.
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I suspect that coin whet overseas and the merchant that took it tested it with his pocket knife to make sure it was real. Nice to see it come home again!
bob
That was my thought as well. It's a very small but deliberate X
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Are you sure that isn't just a chop mark?
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Still way valuable.
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VF-30 sharpness, scratched. The Grey Sheet says $3,800 in Fine and $5,000 in VF-20. A slabbed VF-20 won’t look anywhere near as nice as this, minus the “X” of course.
Here is a VF-35 graded by PCGS on their website... what a shame about that X.
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I wouldn't be surprised if this coin gets repaired by one of the coin restoration experts. I don't know if he's still in business but Allan Stockton did coin repair that was virtually undetectable and some of his repaired coins now reside in major grading service slabs with a straight grade.
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I swear that the X lines look raised from the pics!
Edit: guess the metal was moved to create ridges?
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Sure looks nice even with that X. Not too distracting to me.
TurtleCat Gold Dollars
Same here, it looks raised to me too
Mike
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Not like other chop marks. Not sure what that mark is. Also not aware of chop marks on coins dated in 1830s.
It does look gently wiped on the reverse. But a cool looking coin nonetheless.
Will be interested to hear what PCGS says. I think it will detail but would be interesting to see what they say.
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That X was a test mark since many contemporary counterfeit gold coins were gold plated with a lead alloy base. That coin will definitely details grade.
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"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
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