So You Think You Can Grade? Round 2....Tiny Gold...Pros say FAKE
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Looks like the consensus says that the coin is counterfeit. I'll bring the coin with me to FUN and let a few pros look at it in hand to confirm rather than waste money sending it in to a TPG. I had doubts myself about it's authenticity. It's easy to see how these could have been passed off as real.
How common is it for fake coins to have die cracks? That's one thing that made me question this coin. Although you can't really see it in the photo, there is a die crack right on the neck trunk.
Large coins, like silver dollars, are easier to grade imo. Let's try something really small like this Gold $1.
Seems like the smaller a coin is, the harder to grade, imo. This coin comes from a 12pc type set that I bought eons ago.
I know we have some Gold Pros here, so rather than give away the correct answer right off the bat, let us have a round of guesses just so we can see how hard these coins are to properly grade.
How common is it for fake coins to have die cracks? That's one thing that made me question this coin. Although you can't really see it in the photo, there is a die crack right on the neck trunk.
Large coins, like silver dollars, are easier to grade imo. Let's try something really small like this Gold $1.
Seems like the smaller a coin is, the harder to grade, imo. This coin comes from a 12pc type set that I bought eons ago.
I know we have some Gold Pros here, so rather than give away the correct answer right off the bat, let us have a round of guesses just so we can see how hard these coins are to properly grade.
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Either way I'm saying 65, or at the very least a strong 64.
Although if I take into account my assessment of your Bust Dollar, this coin is probably a 63
Could also be a counterfeit!
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Looks Fake.
This ones not.
unique proof?
I'll say fake as well.
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<< <i>I don't know if it's real or not. I would tend to lean toward fake. However, I believe that the coin is die struck from from a die that was created from an original coin just based on some of the positioning of letter and characteristics of the stars. >>
Since you looked in detail what do you think of the flowlines in the fields? Either the die struck many coins or it was created from a copy of a coin that was struck from a die that struck many coins. --Jerry
<< <i>Counterfeit.
This ones not.
BTW, ambro, since you know the series, what does a proof look like? --Jerry
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<< <i>Keep in mind as you evaluate this one as being a counterfeit, even the genuine coins 'appear' counterfeit if you're depending solely on an analysis of the lettering.
These little critters were difficult to mint! >>
I only had the picture partialy loaded when I saw those casting bubbles.
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Regardless.....one of the main identifiers of a counterfeit gold dollar, and a counterfeit in general, is that the portrait and letters do not make a clean break from the fields of the coin....but are rather rounded, since that is the nature of a die transfer counterfeit. The OP coin clearly shows this.
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<< <i>and the correct answer is.....
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