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Valued Member
Italy
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*** Edited by Staff to Add Year / Mintmark / Denomination to Title. Titles are Important! ***I don't think this is fake also because by a VAM point of view date seeems to be far and 3 seems to be slightly high. So please help me to confirm if this is not fake and eventually please give opinion on grade  
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I would not depend on ANYONE here to verify that coin from your pictures, even as good as they are. If it's legit AND original you have a coin worth in the $2000-3000 range. Send it to a TPG (NGC or PCGS). |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Opinions here will be all over the map....from authenticity to grade opinion you will not know for sure what you have until you get it checked by TPG. Besides, to be marketable and bring full money, it will need to be third party graded. From the pics it looks real and would grade F-12. The old light cleaning looks market acceptable. Good luck!! |
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Moderator
 United States
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This is a coin which has been given the most intense effort on the part of counterfeiters, and cannot be authenticated without high magnification for the smallest of pickups. If you cannot examine this coin with appropriate magnification, do not buy it. Yes, the date and mint mark seem correct for one of the varieties, and if real it is in the VG8-10 range, with a retail value somewhat over US$2000. It may just be the particular tint of these images, but it looks to be suffering a PVC plasticizer attack, and would need immediate treatment with acetone. Use the small scratches listed at VAMworld as your guide: http://www.vamworld.com/1893-S+VAMs |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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vg10. No call on authenticity.
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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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3210 Posts |
Use the die markers superdave gave you the bunny ears marks and there should be a die mark in the T in Liberty I believe
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United States
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Valued Member
 Italy
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
11922 Posts |
It looks like it might just make F-12, but I shall make no call on authenticity.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The coin itself appears authentic, but the date and mintmark could very well not be.
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