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Based on limited information, is this 1875 dime a counterfeit?
RedRocket
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These are the only two photos available. Based on them, is this more or less likely a genuine Seated dime?
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Not Genuine.
I want to agree. Especially when comparing it to genuine coins of the same date. The numbers on the above dime look off.
Here is a bit more photographic 'evidence':
I don't know if this helps to confirm suspicions or not.
It looks genuine, but the images have too much processing, and/or they were "AI" generated.
So there is no way to tell for sure from those pictures.
Interesting. If genuine, the date and letters have been flattened out. The 7 in the date doesn't even look close to me. Or as dcarr says, something wonky going on with the image.
While I can't say for certain, I believe Daniel is correct. Probably authentic, but the amount of photo processing/enhancing/adjusting, especially with the DATE and ONE DIME makes any determination from those images impossible.
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Todd - BHNC #242
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My opinion is no way the 7 or the 5 are correct. The 8 certainly looks "wonky" a term not of my making, but sufficient to get the idea across. I would definitely pass. Below is an actual date. JMO
Jim
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Somebody used the "Sharpen" filter on those photos, which increased the contrast at the apparent edges between dark and light, so the shapes look strange. Actual coin will look different.
Here is the pic from NGC cert verification page
Clearly the photos have been messed with
What led me down the path of contemporary counterfeit possibility was simply looking strictly at the letter, "N" in ONE.
There are other tells, yet this one is the most convincing for me.
There is so much wrong with the above example compared to an authentic coin:
That is interesting!
Here is the listing:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/157527398450
With the NGC photo, I now vote genuine.
why mess with an item where the photos have been photoshopped?
I still focus on the word, "ONE" and find the difference between the coin in question and a photo of a genuine 1875-S to be wildly different.
NGC's photo (not the seller's picture) of the reverse:
Genuine coin:
why are we going through with this exercise?
you buy it?
I find many aspects of coin collecting interesting.
Don't you?
(No, it isn't mine.)
Your comparison assumes N has the same shape on every reverse die for 1875-s, small s, below wreath.
There are 22 known reverse dies.
1875-S F-111 (Reverse K) has a similar slope for the right upright on N.
And a wider left upright that will appear even wider when worn.
The die crack pattern also looks like a potential match to F-111.
https://www.seateddimevarieties.com/date_mintmark/1875sbw_varpage.htm
if you didn't buy it, the interesting part is where did the photoshopped images come from?
Excellent point. I did make that assumption and didn't factor in the various dies used to mint the coin that year.