1800 MO 8 R

I wondered who had bought that one. I was an under-bidder.

As you may or may not know, I bid on suspect "Boston" types all the time but find they often do not fit the type well in person. About 1/2 of the Boston coins I suspect are either real OR inconclusive. This is of course why they were so successful - they passed. The easiest to spot are the ones where they made a serious error - wrong date or assayer initials.

When I bid on this one, I suspected it MIGHT be a Boston forgery based on the excessive number of die chips. I do not bid to win I bid up to about retail in hopes the coin is not of great interest to others. If it ends up being real I re-sell it.

But seeing the edge and the position of the overlaps I believe it is most likely real. Glad you won it - I do not need another original in my collection. But if you can do a Specific Gravity I would love to know the results.

That SG is good so the coin is about 90-91% silver. The Boston forgeries were full weight silver.

It was more fun when my name appeared on a coin. Until ebay decided to hide the names I had a second ID "This-coin-is-fake" was my second bidder name. It did work - it caused more than one cancellation.

Yes, I miss that old time as well, it was also a nice way to meet other collectors :)
I wish there would be an option to choose to not have is name obfuscated ...