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1893 Indian Head Cent Real Or Counterfeit...
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Looks genuine, but heavily polished.
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Looks polished to me as well, jmo
But is it real? I had this posted for sale and people were questioning it.
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fwiw, with a little practice (mostly quick editing) it looks like you are capable of some real quality images!
the hard part is getting even, well-lit, large, sharp images. then all you need do is learn the art of quick-edit to do stuff like this. paint works just fine albeit i don't think it can do round-crop without expert level knowledge. i guess i am lazy and just settle for photoscape. so quick, easy and effective to ctrl+c, v, crop then crtl+c then v again. from paint to scape back to paint. viola! (i didn't do that here)
Looks real. Struck with a die that had a lot of die erosion which shows it had a lot of use before this coin was struck.
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Polished to death. Possibly used or intended for jewelry.
Polished to death, used for jewelry, some of you guys are brutal, lol!
I'm asking if it's real or counterfeit...
It's genuine.
I like it. Any chance you could PM me the details of where it is being offered?
Looks good to me too. Problems as noted above.
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Looks OK to me, jmo
UNC details... (cleaned/recolored)
I agree with most answers. Can clearly see the Die wear. Certainly genuine imo
I am going to be the contrarian and say counterfeit. The whole thing doesn’t look right to me. If it’s been polished that much, why is it so sharp, and why are the die fatigue markings so pronounced? Also, if it was struck with late die state dies, why are the design devices so sharp? The whole thing does not add up to me.
As a follow-up, here are images from Coin Facts of Mint State and Proof pieces.
The rims on the OP coin look like a Proof, but why would a Proof have that kind of die fatigue?
I definitely would have bought it if I would have come across it before you did. It looks authentic to me my skills on determining counterfeit is not very good. However, the clean and shiny look would be a big question my mind about the coin, but I probably would have bought it anyhow.
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Looks authentic to me too, but heavily "processed" in some way.
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That IHC looks strange to me. I cannot say it is counterfeit, but the image is strange and I agree with the points @BillJones raised.... I would like to see commentary from Rick Snow on this one. Cheers, RickO
Real but whizzed.
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It's currently up for auction but it was temporally pulled because someone questioned it's authenticity.
@Coll3ctor just curious, what's the price of a at the auction right now?
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Unless I am reading it wrong it was at $85.
It's above $90.00 now...> @JWP said:
Current bid is $94.00
Thank you
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