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Request Help with an 1877-s Half Dollar

burfle23burfle23 Posts: 2,601 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited May 10, 2018 12:26PM in U.S. Coin Forum

This piece was held in a Dealer’s inventory as a possible fake; seems he sold it to a good customer who returned it after being told by an expert it is counterfeit. Checks 90% silver, 12.5 grams in weight.

I appreciate any thoughts on this one!

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  • Wabbit2313Wabbit2313 Posts: 7,268 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It certainly looks cleaned and re-toned. Not much upside to the coin being a fake. It's worth a couple hundred bucks in AU, problem free.

  • oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 12,617 ✭✭✭✭✭

    When in doubt...don't.

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  • SmudgeSmudge Posts: 9,830 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Offer melt value. $6. Or pass.

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I do not see it as an obvious fake... except for the tarnish... and maybe her head...not sure. Cheers, RickO

  • Walkerguy21DWalkerguy21D Posts: 11,727 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Looks Ok to me, but I'm no expert.

    Wait and see if some LS club expert comes along and determines the mm placement is wrong, etc.

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  • burfle23burfle23 Posts: 2,601 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Walkerguy21D said:

    Wait and see if some LS club expert comes along and determines the mm placement is wrong, etc.

    I talked with a few from the LSCC and got a cautious split decision; deciding just from images with no obvious feature that is wrong is difficult! There are many of the documented varities for this date that are dependant on seeing very fine details that one can't see from these images...

  • Walkerguy21DWalkerguy21D Posts: 11,727 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I talked with a few from the LSCC and got a cautious split decision
    Well, you probably can't get better opinions than those, at least from images.
    There are some sharp cookies in that org.
    Best of luck to you!

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  • burfle23burfle23 Posts: 2,601 ✭✭✭✭✭

    PCGS is going to take a look at it.

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