Opinions on a Fatman dollar real or fake?

bronco2078

I bought this a few years ago and paid $10 for it which was around melt value. It came from an antique shop up in New Hampshire and it was stapled in an old 2x2. Recently I came across it in my foreign silver box and was looking at it and wondering if it was real.

It feels like silver , it sounds like its struck not cast and it weighs 26 grams exactly. The thing that made me wonder is it looks a bit mushy to me and its a somewhat rotated die. About 5 or 10 degrees off. The reeding isn't very pronounced either. Its been in my possession since at least 2009 maybe a few years more. Were bad strikes and or rotated dies unusual for these?

candy2012mustang

Fake - this is dated 1916, not a year of production

Hussulo

Fake and I dont think it will be silver, have you weighed it? it should weigh 26,7g-27,2g.

In the pictures it looks like it could be silver washed (plated) on the reverse it looks like a base metal is showing through on some of the leaves.

Unfortunately the Chinese will even counterfiet their own coins. It seems like if anything can be copied its fair game to them, this even goes for cars...
http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2007/07/shuanghuan-sceo-chinese-bmw-x5-copy-cat.html

EVillageProwler

The Chinese even copied entire Apple retail stores. It was pretty funny reading about the interview with one of store employees.

bronco2078

It does ring like a struck coin but its not the correct tone. I bashed it against a few morgan dollars and the sound isn't right. It sounds like a clad ike so i'm going to assume its not silver .


Thanks for the help looks like its destined to go in my decoy stash.

LochNESS

Looks fake but, try checking for magnetism. I came across some fake Fatman dollars a couple years ago and ultimately they were magnetic.

jt88

It is fake for sure. No dollar coin on that year. Only 20C and 10C.