counterfeit 1898 barber quarter

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demodigger
demodigger Posts: 1,012 ✭
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dug these today. the quarter is slightly thinner and looks like silver. will have my coin dealer look at it next week.
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  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Counterfeiting has been done since money was invented.... but really surprising to dig one. Is that a pocket watch or a compact?? Cheers, RickO
  • johnny9434
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    id like to get a better look at that ( i think ) medal image
  • demodigger
    demodigger Posts: 1,012 ✭
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    notice the thin lettering and smaller stars. just about everything is a little off.
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  • lordmarcovan
    lordmarcovan Posts: 45,335 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    You sure it's a counterfeit and not just a weirdly warped out Barber? I found a Merc dime once that was almost the diameter of a nickel. It had been in a fire, and got melted/stretched somehow. Really I only found half of it. That half has since crumbled into many little fragments inside the flip I put it in, over the last few years, since it was really brittle. I have no doubt it was a real coin, once, though, and from the 'teens. Found a lovely AU 1916 Barber dime on the same site.

    I guess if you say the lettering is off, though, it's a contemporary fake (I can't really tell from the pix... no... I do sorta see what you are sayin' about the thin letters- interesting!)

    Cool! I'd just as happily dig a contemporary counterfeit as a genuine coin of the same type. My 1782 Irish "Hibernia" halfpenny is one such contemporary counterfeit I've found.

    What is that interesting foblike thing? I can't quite make out the lettering.

    Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.

  • demodigger
    demodigger Posts: 1,012 ✭
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    Had my coin dealer check it out. It weighs less and is not brittle. He agrees that it is a counterfeit, but a poorly made one. This came from a dump that dates no later than 1907. The other thing with melted writing looks like an old carriage.

  • ebaybuyer
    ebaybuyer Posts: 2,984 ✭✭✭
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    that barber looks acid dipped, i would consider taking i to a jeweler for a composition test. could also have been a "shipwreck find"
    regardless of how many posts I have, I don't consider myself an "expert" at anything
  • avenue7
    avenue7 Posts: 54
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    How likely is it to dig out a counterfeit?

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