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Counterfeit Half Dollar 1962?

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 Posted 11/13/2018  3:13 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Alpha2814 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The entire 1952 image looks slightly rotated clockwise, can't really use that as a direct comparison for "leaning forward". Visually, the 1962 looks genuine to me. What we're missing is a caliper measurement of the thickness or, more easily, a visual side-by-side of the edge with a genuine piece.

The sound test is not proof-positive to me, and I'd otherwise lean towards "the reverse has been planed off" except that nearly half would have to be removed to make this weight and it would then there would be an obvious difference in the thickness. I'm stumped.
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 Posted 11/13/2018  3:51 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Dorado to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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The entire 1952 image looks slightly rotated clockwise, can't really use that as a direct comparison for "leaning forward"


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 Posted 11/14/2018  05:52 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add robert_ to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Here some photos to compare it to a normal half dollar (it is a 1966 Kennedy, I don't have in this moment a FranKlin to compare):

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 Posted 11/14/2018  08:40 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add just carl to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Wonder why people make coins like that.
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 Posted 11/17/2018  11:57 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add freddo30 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Could be more interesting than a genuine piece ; the master hub for 1960-63 Franklins was reworked after years of gradual deterioration. This looks like a pre-59 Benjamin with hand engraved date (the numerals are improperly shaped) and typical cast copy legends. Perhaps it is uniface as the fakers didn't have a reverse ready - a rare uniface counterfeit die trial/pattern struck in white metal - much more entertaining than a genuine circulated 1962 Half ... thanks for sharing.
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 Posted 11/23/2018  2:29 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sharkman to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I completely agree with just carl. Someone must have been REALLY bored.
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 Posted 11/23/2018  5:32 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add IndianGoldEagle to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
It took some time and effort to destroy that coin.
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are we not paying attension (or it just me) in photo 1 @ 2 I see smooth edge. in photo 3@4 I see reminets of reeded edge.
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It may be over laid on the kennedy but not sure
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