Hello, I'm new to this board, but I'm a moderator on the Coin Forgery Ebay group and find this a fascinating thread, extremely well executed with terrific photos. My "specialty" on the CFe is trade dollars (but I do not consider myself an expert) because I spend a lot of time ferreting them out for reporting them. I see on the images posted here of the fakes what I believe is a forger's mark-- on the O of OF there are 2 little curlicue marks, one on each side. Most of the fakes we see nowdays are transfer die copies, which can usually be outed by problems in the process, such as pits in the dentils, bits of raised metal on the fields or numbers, or device "issues" such as the defect on Liberty's foot already mentioned. I'll be stopping in to check the threads here more often, lots of good stuff. Keep up the good work! Charles
Welcom, Kaz! Might I recommend that you turn your Private Message function on? TD
Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
<< <i>Welcom, Kaz! Might I recommend that you turn your Private Message function on? TD >>
Ditto. Yes, please do turn on your PM function.
I used to be somebody, now I'm just a coin collector. Recipient of the coveted "You Suck" award, April 2009 for cherrypicking a 1833 CBHD LM-5, and April 2022 for a 1835 LM-12, and again in Aug 2012 for picking off a 1952 FS-902.
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Might I recommend that you turn your Private Message function on?
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<< <i>Welcom, Kaz!
Might I recommend that you turn your Private Message function on?
TD >>
Ditto. Yes, please do turn on your PM function.
Recipient of the coveted "You Suck" award, April 2009 for cherrypicking a 1833 CBHD LM-5, and April 2022 for a 1835 LM-12, and again in Aug 2012 for picking off a 1952 FS-902.