Is this $2 1/2 Liberty genuine?

I don't like the obverse. The date looks mushy to me.

 

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Extruded edge reeding is very common on genuine coins. For example, try to find some McKinley gold dollars without it. That's not the best example as few of us will get to see many of these raw. Anyway, the smaller the gold coin, the more often this characteristic is seen. Therefore it is not a very useful or reliable characteristic to use for coin authentication.

Long ago, on crude fakes, the coins were pushed through a "tool" with grooves to simulate edge reeding. By the 1970's ALL decent counterfeit U.S. coins were die struck in collars - even the crude struck fakes that many well regarded authorities at the time mistakenly claimed were casts!

 

Find another 1907 with the edge that looks like this.

 

I don't need to prove anything to myself. Passing on reliable information. I don't care if anyone believes it or not - really.

Anyway, the chances of me even coming across a 1907 anytime soon is astronomical but I'll try just for you.

PS I'll bet if you look at a dozen of your dirty $2 1/2 Indians (try 1925-D's), you'll find pushed up reeding before I even start looking on Monday!

 

I am pretty sure all of the 1907 2.5 dollar gold coins have this dip in it. I have not found one without it, thus leading me to believe that it is a part of the 1907's diagnostics. Even if it isn't, this coin has other problems.

 

OK, another question. Is this the same coin that showed up a few months ago? https://www.cointalk.com/threads/1907-2-1-2-dollar-gold-coin.294083/page-2#post-2742125

 

Same coin? Or from the same fake die?

 

There are genuine coins without the dip but it looks like the 1 touches the denticles on all the ones that don't have it.


https://coins.ha.com/itm/liberty-qu.../1241-4450.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515

I'd imagine that because the 1 was originally touching the denticles as shown on some of the coins the mint abraded the die to separate them and created the 'dip' which appears on the majority of the coins.

 

Damn, you just blew my entire theory out of the water! It's like the saying that you could prove something a thousands times but it only takes one thing to disprove it. I do think the vast majority of them have that "dip" though. I still think the coin is a fake.