Real or Fake ?

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• Batman23 Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 31, 2011 9:05AM

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• Russ Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭

  January 31, 2011 9:05AM

  Obvious fake.
  
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• USMoneylover Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭

  January 31, 2011 9:12AM

  What are the tell tale signs of it being a fake? Not having much experience in this design and comparing it to some pictures I've seen it doesn't look bad.
  
  Thanks for the lesson!

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• QuarterCollector Posts: 1,384 ✭

  January 31, 2011 9:14AM

  Great Southern Fakes

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• Russ Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭

  January 31, 2011 9:16AM

  
  
  << <i>What are the tell tale signs of it being a fake? Not having much experience in this design and comparing it to some pictures I've seen it doesn't look bad.
  
  Thanks for the lesson! >>
  
  
  
  I have no idea. I just wanted to be first.
  
  Might be real, but tooled. Hair looks funky.
  
  Russ, NCNE

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• Batman23 Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 31, 2011 9:17AM

  I am interested in reading how you know this is a fake.

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• QuarterCollector Posts: 1,384 ✭

  January 31, 2011 9:24AM

  IMHO, it doesn't look right. As Russ stated if it is real it has been heavily worked. I would stay away.
  
  Tom

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• thisnamztaken Posts: 4,101 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 31, 2011 9:47AM

  To me, the hair separations and wing feathers look a little too surrealistic to be original. I've often wondered why this seller seldom, if ever, lists any certified coins, but of course that doesn't necessarily mean that they are counterfeit. I seem to recall a couple members here saying in the past that they've had good dealings with him though, but unless you're an expert on that series, I'd be careful.

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• PerryHall Posts: 46,825 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 31, 2011 9:50AM

  You have to wonder why a coin like this is still raw.

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• coinguy1 Posts: 13,484 ✭✭✭

  January 31, 2011 9:52AM

  My guess is that the coin is genuine, but has been screwed with in some way(s), as have the images.

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• Walkerguy21D Posts: 11,695 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 31, 2011 10:00AM

  Best case, heavily retooled, worst case, outright fake - and I suspect the latter. Hard for me to qualify the telltale signs - I guess having seen a number of genuine ones, this just doesn't look 'right' - may be surrealistic, like thisnamztaken stated. Not sure which problem it has, but I don't eat food that smells bad, even though I don't know for sure what's wrong with it, and I don't buy coins that look bad, either

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• Frankcoins Posts: 4,571 ✭✭✭

  January 31, 2011 10:19AM

  Tooled hair. Very commonly done by collectors 1880-1920 era. I once saw a collection of large cents all
  bizarrely worked over.

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• dcarr Posts: 9,086 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 31, 2011 10:39AM

  
  
  << <i>Tooled hair. Very commonly done by collectors 1880-1920 era. I once saw a collection of large cents all
  bizarrely worked over. >>
  
  
  
  Yes, the coin appears to be genuine, but hair lines re-tooled. And also I believe the coin was polished at one point,
  then artificially darkened, and then lightened again on the high points.
  

  Moonlight Mint

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• notwilight Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭

  January 31, 2011 10:47AM

  
  
  << <i>My guess is that the coin is genuine, but has been screwed with in some way(s), as have the images. >>
  
  
  
  I have copied this reply onto my clipboard where I will keep it for the next thread on this seller so that I can beat Mark to the punch.

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• notwilight Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭

  January 31, 2011 10:49AM

  
  
  << <i>
  
  << <i>Tooled hair. Very commonly done by collectors 1880-1920 era. I once saw a collection of large cents all
  bizarrely worked over. >>
  
  
  
  Yes, the coin appears to be genuine, but hair lines re-tooled. And also I believe the coin was polished at one point,
  then artificially darkened, and then lightened again on the high points. >>
  
  
  
  Other than that I'd say the coin looks fine. --Jerry

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• ambro51 Posts: 13,949 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 31, 2011 11:18AM

  
  bifurcated letters

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