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Is this mint error authentic or counterfeit?

jt88jt88 Posts: 3,532 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Can some of the Mint error expert give me your opinion on this mint error coin; authentic or counterfeit?





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    davewesendavewesen Posts: 6,951 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Is the one side incuse instead of raised? It looks promising.

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    jonathanbjonathanb Posts: 4,113 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Totally real, and very nice

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    MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,745 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 14, 2026 10:11PM

    I’m hardly an expert on Kennedy’s, but my initial questions were, first, if the hair detail was unusually poor, and second, if the edge should show more signs of copper. My first question has been resolved by comparing it to the coin below. The second question I leave to the Kennedy experts.

    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
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    jt88jt88 Posts: 3,532 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It is 40% silver

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    gonzergonzer Posts: 3,086 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A very real off center strike with a brockage reverse..

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