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Contemporary Counterfeit 1860 Seated Quarter
World67
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I ran across this in my searches and thought it was interesting.
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Definitely a contemporary counterfeit, very primitive portrait of Liberty.
An authorized PCGS dealer, and a contributor to the Red Book.
It looks like it stayed in circulation for many years.
Any bite marks visible?
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Nice one!
Contemporary yes, but I cannot believe it would fool any adult with 1/2 a brain. I mean just because its the middle of the 19th Century is it also assumed that the populations never conceived that counterfeits could be out and about.....wow
Nice period counterfeit. Back during the Civil War era if you had mixed this into a circulated pile of quarters it likely would have slipped through.
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I think that engraving is exceptionally good for a counterfeit of that era.
It’s likely that this bogus coin is pretty much ‘as cast’ for details.
A fake had a better chance of ‘passing’ if it appeared to have been spent repeatedly.
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THis piece was struck from false dies.
Got Beak!
Whoa...baby got beak!
The fact that the design differs from that of an authentic coin indicates that it was struck from hand engraved dies. If the dies were cast from a real coin, the design would be a lot closer to that of a genuine coin although the design would be less sharp and the surfaces would likely be more porous or fuzzy.
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I believe the evidence is clear: Picasso was inspired by this counterfeit.