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New Member
United Kingdom
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Just wondering if you guys can tell me if this is a fake or not, I believe so with the edging the way it is but thought I would check   also any more info on it would be handy |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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 Looks like a bad copy to me. Do you have a magnet? (thanks for the welcome reminder amida17)Edited by oih82w8
07/19/2012 11:58 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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 lack of details and the rim point to modern reproduction.. BTW, To CCF! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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............... amida17 I type too slow  ouch  spacing way off dobby1985 you are correct about the edge oih82w8 good place to start!  Some brass is slightly magnetic, some alloys of brass are not magnetic, ! Next try weight. Your coin looks too far off to be one of the super alloys.  Edited by tokenmast
07/19/2012 12:18 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Yep, although I have quite a few "copies" that are not magnetic.
Diamagnetic - won't be attracted to a magnet
Paramagnetic - slight attraction
Ferromagnetic - strong attraction
Edited by oih82w8
07/19/2012 12:11 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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No need for a scale or magnet. It's an obvious, and very poor, counterfeit. Edited by BH1964
07/19/2012 1:01 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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There's a nice website on counterfeit draped bust dollars that includes this very culprit. Am I allowed to give the URL, though, or is that frowned upon?
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There's a nice website on counterfeit draped bust dollars that includes this very culprit. Am I allowed to give the URL, though, or is that frowned upon? Feel free. There is a list of automatically-blocked websites - they're there because they have abused either CCF specifically or numismatics in general. If this happens to be one of them, no harm, no foul. Could have happened a while ago and you'd never know, but a website only spams us once.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Unfortunately, the coin is not real. |
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Posted 07/19/2012 11:53 am
