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1923 Halfpennies On Ebay - Warning To New Collectors And One Seller.

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 Posted 03/30/2018  01:59 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add nuggethill to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I brought mine off ebay but still don't know if it's real or fake,some of the fakes are done so well it's hard trying to suss them out,
this is mine it's a bit banged around
1923-Halfpennies-On-Ebay---Warning-To-New-Collectors-And-One-Seller.
1923-Halfpennies-On-Ebay---Warning-To-New-Collectors-And-One-Seller.
I can't convert bmp to jpg so I took a photo off the screen
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 Posted 03/30/2018  02:48 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add CoinOS to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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but still don't know if it's real or fake


Photo much too small.

You can upload photos to 300kb maximum, which for jpeg file type usually means resize it to about 625x625.
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 Posted 03/30/2018  05:11 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add echidna to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
This coin appears to be damaged.
Bit hard to tell if its genuine or not due to poor image quality.

Also re JPG format - its should be easy to convert BMP to JPG.
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You can upload photos to 300kb maximum, which for jpeg file type usually means resize it to about 625x625.


Actually at 75% compression, which is perfectly good on the internet, you can go much larger than that.

NOTE: My eyes absolutely cannot see any difference between 95% and 75%, none at all.
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I can't convert bmp to jpg so I took a photo off the screen


Windows paint does it easily.
Google or Bing etc will teach you in 5 minutes.


A good guess needs a good photo.

No angle - straight down at the coin, with plenty of room light. Camera flash off.

The coin has none of the characteristics of the current wave of Chinese fakes, but that doesn't mean much.
There are thousands of fake 1923 halfpennies.

The numerals look okay, and the date position and alignment is correct, the coin might be genuine.
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This is from paint
1923-Halfpennies-On-Ebay---Warning-To-New-Collectors-And-One-Seller.
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The pic is a bit small and we need the obverse as well.
However my guess is that its genuine and damaged.
Its had a big hit on the obverse which appears to the left of PENNY.
Its had some sort of clean as well.
Basically its awful but genuine.
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Here is date detail from your supplied photo.

1923-Halfpennies-On-Ebay---Warning-To-New-Collectors-And-One-Seller.

Looks okay.

Everything is pretty much as it should be.
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