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Can anyone help me identify are they real or fake?

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EternalLove
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 Posted 06/23/2012  02:21 am Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add EternalLove to your friends list Get a Link to this Message

My father brought these coin when he was young and keep them in a pouch.
They are non-magnetic.
I did not weight the coins because I don't have a digital weighing scale.






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 Posted 06/23/2012  06:47 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add gxseries to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
First one is fake. Second is questionable. Third is genuine - struck in .500 silver if I am not wrong.
My partial coin collection http://www.omnicoin.com/collection/gxseries

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 Posted 06/23/2012  08:37 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add snowman to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Sorry, but the second coin (a French Indo-China Piastre) is a fake. The wheat stalks on the the obverse side (with Liberty) are wrong, the detail on liberty's face is wrong and the rope behind liberty does not have the proper detail or placement. Here is a coin for comparison:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/French-Indo...t_500wt_1361
267 different coin issuing entities in my collection...and counting.
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Thanks guys
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 Posted 06/23/2012  10:32 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add hammerrob to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Agree the first two do not look genuine, not famaliar enough with the third to have an opinion.
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 Posted 06/25/2012  12:11 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add coinsnpaper to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I agree with what has been posted here- the first piece is not a fake, it is a concoction- it never existed in the first place. It appears to be a combination of Chinese and Japanese designs. The second is a fake- details and dots do not match. I think the third is good.
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