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I was reading my Red Book in math class today and I was looking at page 218 in the 2016 version, same as 2015 version, possibly 2014, and it was showing two varieties of 1799 silver dollars. I noticed the nose and overall shape of the bust of the 1799 over 98 stars 7 and 6 was really off and just an ugly design. I believe this to be a fake coin. Or are do all of these coins look like this?   Please help. This first one looks fake Now this one looks definitely real. See the difference?  |
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Okayyyy well do all of them look like that then? Because it looks awfully different than the other one.
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All of the dies were hand cut and had shorter lives than those of today. So there are quite a few different die pairs used, even with small mintages. This is actualy a specialist collection type. Die marriage
-----Burton 50+ year / Life / Emeritus ANA member (joined 12/1/1973) Life member: Numismatics International, CONECA Member: TNA, FtWCC, NETCC, EveryCountry (online) coin club Owned by three cats and a wife of 40+ years (joined 1983) Author: 3rd Edition of the Sample Slabs book, https://www.sampleslabs.info/Edited by BStrauss3
05/23/2015 6:11 pm
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Thanks for the clarity BStrauss3. That was what I was looking for.
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Quote: was reading my Red Book in math class today  ! |
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Sorry SSK. I was under the assumption that you knew that there are subtle differences between varieties in early US coinage. The coin I posted is of the same variety, just a different grade. |
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No worries. I learned something new.
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Quote:I was reading my Red Book in math class today Yeah, I thought that was hilarious. But.....not really off track. I remember my 9th grade algebra teacher always telling us that if we substitute money for the numbers in the math problems, we'll never make a mistake.   |
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The only problem I see with the coin is the nose. And that could be from getting hit in the nose while possing for this coins. Possibly hit by a teacher that found the model reading something like the Red Book instead of working.  |
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"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." (Aristotle)
Keep with the maths, but not bad to think about coins.
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Posted 05/23/2015 12:40 pm
