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Valued Member
United States
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United States
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Valued Member
Singapore
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Please check the PCGS website picture of your coin.It look different. Enclosed is the picture download from PCGS.  |
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Pillar of the Community
Austria
566 Posts |
They do make fake slabs with well-made forgeries inside.
It is China, you had to see that coming.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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EconBrony Can you post pictures that are in better focus? I agree something looks amiss when comparing your photos to the PCGS archive. 
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Valued Member
 United States
336 Posts |
The area you circled matches on the coin. Pulled it out and looked at it under magnification. Its just a bad picture I took. I cant seem to get a better pic with my phone at the moment. When I have more time I will try to get a better picture with my DSLR.
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United States
336 Posts |
So I took a quick picture with the DSLR. I didn't setup up my rig for taking pictures, however, it is much better than the picture from before. I did notice my camera picked up way more detail than PCGS did, I'm guessing they paid for the lower quality picture on this one. I uploaded a picture without any editing along with a picture with PCGS and one of mine with red circles on them. The circles are off identical dark markings on the coin. I could have circled far more than that. It does not appear to be a counterfeit to me.    |
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Valued Member
United States
336 Posts |
After posting I see it is very hard to see the markings due to the size I have to shrink the photos down to in order to put them on the site :(
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Valued Member
United States
336 Posts |
Edited by EconBrony
11/16/2018 8:11 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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EconBrony This coin certainly does illustrate the problem associated with poor photographs. It looks 100% better in the newer photos and I would say that it matches.
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Valued Member
United States
336 Posts |
Thank you very much swamperbob for getting back with me. I have a lot of experience in US coins, but I am very new to the Chinese coin market. I am spending a lot of time studying Chinese coins specifically from 1900 to 1920, but I have a long way to go still. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The Chinese coin series are VERY complex and beset with issues only fully understood by experts, in many ways about as complex as Mexican issues. So I wish you much luck in that endeavor.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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"They do make fake slabs with well-made forgeries inside.
It is China, you had to see that coming."
Yeah but you really think they can do it that well?
i think it is real however no expert nor do I specialize in collecting Chinese coins. To me the PCGS case it harder to fake, not impossible just harder.
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Pillar of the Community
Singapore
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Just email PCGS with pictures and ask them.
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United States
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@Numister Not worried, the picture from PCGS matches the coin, were all good
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