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1859-s Seated Half - Counterfeit or Damaged?
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What do you think is going on with this one? Not my coin, I just ran across it on ebay.
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Plugged and poorly tooled in an attempt to disguise the work maybe?
Although there’s heavy tooling in more than one spot….
Authentic, but heavily tooled and devices reengraved
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Agree with previous posts
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Is that a chopmark on the reverse center?
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Maybe a plugged hole?
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The poor dear.
My theory is that this coin circulated heavily in the Orient, and gathered numerous chopmarks. Later, it fell into the hands of a collector, who attempted to "fix" it by smoothing and re-engraving the surfaces. However there must have been one deeper than the rest (center reverse) that lived to tell the tale.
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Real, but a C coin.
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Quite a few Seated half dimes with similar 're-engraving' show up on ebay.
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Agree with this, the coin was chopmarked and someone attempted to crudely repair it. There are still two Chinese characters visible on the reverse, including a large one in the center of the eagle.
Agree with this and would add the date and MM support that hypothesis as they were exported in bulk to the Orient
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Wow. That coin looks like a Jack O Lantern one month after Halloween. wonder where he's been. James
I'm glad I posted this for discussion. I didn't even notice that the damage on the reverse was a chop mark.
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Rare parrot variety!
Damaged
^ I'm glad we solved the mystery!
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Agree 👍
One question is whether it was done for the collector market or was it done way back when to make it more acceptable for circulating in the US after it returned from the Orient?
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I’m voting Bogus.
Looks like an oldtime counterfeit, with that inexplicable parrot head eagle
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The MM, date placement and denticals are all spot on speaking to being a real host. Looks like silver too coupled to the known chop mark test drill by the date being period correct. Chops were beyond worthless for a dozen decades and especially the common dates that were chopped spent their years languishing in junk bins and treated as such. It is not uncommon to see chopped coins mutilated. There simply was no downside
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