1795 Coin Thanks Everyone

Your coin is a fake. Here is what it should look like:

how can you tell its fake help me so I wont make this mistake again

Sern, determining fakes is a learning process. Two things I look for right away are the stars, how well defined are they? Globby, distorted, out of place. Second, always find a pix of a real coin, I compare the fonts, letter and numbers. Most often, the cheap knockoffs are easily seen because the numbers are different font than original. I have a fake 1864 dollar, the 18 is close to original, the 65 is a more modern type, readily visible. These nicer looking older coins for the most part if they are not TPG must be suspect, the real coin is too expensive to be floating around "raw".

There's a forum here to detect fakes, if in the future you see something that you're considering, post the sellers pix, let the experts pick it apart before you jump...may save ya megabucks and this

In the 1700's the coins were not struck in coin collars as they were not yet invented. Note the genuine coin posted has the denticles going all the way to the edge of the coin. Your Counterfeit coin has a flat rim after the denticles caused by being struck in a collar.