I Have A 1925 Five Dollar Gold Half Indian Pendant.

If it is a 1925 Half Eagle it is fake or the only one in existence. Post pictures and try to get a really good shot of the wing on the reverse. If it is a 1929 it is very valuable.

Post pictures and try to get a really good shot of the wing on the reverse. Most older copies are gold even if they are fake. A lot of people put them into bezels in the old days so it could be real. Jewelry mounting tended to damage the edge of the coin plus cause wear by rubbing on clothing as they were worn. Probably worth $350 even with minor damage if it is a real Indian Half Eagle.

I'm by no means an expert in US gold, but I don't think the date is in the right place. It could be a completely fake coin, or it could be a genuine half-eagle with an "altered date". I'm leaning more towards "fake", given that I think I can see corrosion spots on the eagle and around the rim - which I shouldn't be seeing on a gold coin. The designer's initials seem to have been erased too. Compare with the pic on the CCF fact page.

Why would someone make or alter a coin to create a fictitious date? Perhaps they were born that year, or married that year, or something else happened that year they wished to commemorate with a coin pendant. On discovering that no such coin existed with a 1925 date, they had their own made.

Welcome to Coin Community, jamescondlin. There's no more chance of your "coin" being real than the previous one; although the details on the coin pay homage to the true example, it's clear to anyone who's seen a real one that it's faked. This is particularly noticeable in the feathers and headband on the obverse, and the wing details and lettering on the reverse. No need to even raise the topic of it never having actually been minted, although that's why the date was chosen for the pendant, because no accusation of counterfeiting could be made against it.

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