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New Member
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So hopefully everyone can cut me some slack on some of the images I'll be posting. I tried taking some axial pics and I'm open to suggestions but these next several posts are all taken the same way. Also there may have been a little glare or purple color from gloves I wore.   |
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Pillar of the Community
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That hurts my eyes it's been polished so bad. Mintmark area looks fishy, and altered mintmark coins are often brushed up to cover the work.
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New Member
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I think I just need to try taking some other pictures most of these coins look better in hand/show some luster.
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Pillar of the Community
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looks like an altered 1894 O. I see a faint outline of an O. I agree with typecoin
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It's just a bad picture. Looking at it in my hand there's not a faint outline, just a weird bag mark and it's also not polished.
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Pillar of the Community
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Then provide better pics. All your pictures make the coins look harshly cleaned or polished. Til those are done we cannot give you an accurate assessment. And the 1894 Morgan is one of the most faked Morgan's cause it's 110,000 mintage is second only to 1893 S of 100,000
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06/28/2017 9:18 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
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Not one of the two proof dies, and none of the diagnostic markers are present for VAM-3. Either an altered 1894-S/1894-O, or a counterfeit, would be my guess. The neck-wing gap also looks off. In addition, the right inner wing feather is engraved in an entirely different manner (3 engraved feathers vs. 1 on a real 1894)
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Bedrock of the Community
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Whether it's altered or not I can't say but will say this one looks the most like a genuine silver dollar, for what that's worth.
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mark and it's also not polished. Maybe not polished but definitely harshly cleaned with an abrasive. It does not make much of a difference. |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Definitely looks cleaned. Photos are not good enough to tell if the mint mark was removed.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Have to agree. Maybe it's just your photo skills but your pics have a harsh glare that suggests cleaning or polishing.
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this is a cast counterfeit
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Bedrock of the Community
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poster child for coin you want to avoid
IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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