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 Posted 12/11/2012  10:36 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add AZTAMT to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Got these 2 in a bag of foreign I purchased from a local Craiglist estate clear out. I cant find any that look like this...Any insight would help.
Thanks

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 Posted 12/11/2012  10:45 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add amida17 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Looks like a 1911-15, China/Yunnan 50 cents silver Dragon coin. Should be .800 silver. Lots of counterfeits of these around though. Does it stick to a magnet?
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 Posted 12/11/2012  10:47 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add AZTAMT to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
It does.
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 Posted 12/11/2012  10:56 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add amida17 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Unfortunately it is a knock off.
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 Posted 12/11/2012  11:00 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add svslav to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The only correction is that it's a forged dollar (7 mace 2 candareens), not 50 cents.
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