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Valued Member
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I am new to this site. Picked up a Continental coin from a friend, but am concerned about its authenticity after reading other comments regarding another specimen. Since my photographs are too large for this post, would you go to <<edited by Staff to put images in post>> and take a look if you are knowledgeable in this area. Your comments will be appreciated.   Is it worth sending off to NGC? Nancy White Kelly |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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How much did you (or your friend) pay for it? Real ones cost a fair chunk of change, so if it wasn't at least several thousand dollars for it I'd be very suspect. Is that a color or black and white picture?
I'm not an expert on these so I won't venture a guess if what you have is real or not, but the people that are experts may need higher quality images to be able to tell.
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Valued Member
United States
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The obverse is correct, but when the reverse has such a mushy and low quality strike like that, it's generally a red flag that the coin is a reproduction.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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This piece appears to be a typical cast copy.
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Valued Member
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I am disappointed as I paid $100 in hopes it MIGHT be real.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Paying $100 hoping its real is not too sensible considering that a real one will run you about $10,000. There are several magnitudes more fakes and copies in existence than real examples so any inexpensive example you come across has to be assumed to be a copy unless you can positively authenticate it.
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Valued Member
United States
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If this is real, it looks like Newman 1-C, pewter and is worth $12,000 for F-12 (and $21,000 for VF-20). (Page 239, Whitman encyclopedia of colonial and early American coins.)  It looks like a cast coin to me, a new coin collector. |
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Hi Nancy. Looks like you have one of the many cast copies that exist. The reverse has the typical cast effect that so many of these have. Nice keepsake though.
swcoin.ecrater.com
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Bedrock of the Community
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...any inexpensive example you come across has to be assumed to be a copy unless you can positively authenticate it.
I'd take biokemist's advice as it applies to all rare coins. $100 was too much money to risk. |
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United States
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And yet another one.I've had this one 20 or 30 years.I've taken it to a coin show or two and was told Copy.Posted it here when I was new,Was told copy.Considering mine looks just like yours.I'd say Copy   Edited by jasper62
02/03/2010 5:10 pm
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