How sweet it is! The photos speak for themselves. It's dated 1870-CC. Oh so beautiful! A slightly different angle to show how reflective the rim in question is. And the reverse. Notice that one little problem at the top of the shield? Just under the Eagles neck? It reads COPY. An 1870-CC Double Eagle. So nice but alas, it's not real but I only paid a dime for it!
Good deal. The American Mint (no relationship to ours) originally made similar for $79.95. Mintage of 9,999.
I paid $5 for this one and $5 for a 1933 St. Gaudens. I was in a pawn shop when the pawn shop dealer wouldn't buy them. I gave the guy $5 for each of them.
I so much wish that our mint would go back to these early Liberty designs. Enough of the Dead Presidents already.
I'm not exaggerating when I said I stared at the reverse of that OP coin for minutes trying to find where it said COPY. I thought I was losing it. Then when you guys said it was Incuse, I looked some more. It had to be there! I could not see it. Then suddenly I saw it. I was seeing negative space around the word, it just looked like a bloby mess above the shield. Unless I try really hard, I still default to see the negative space. Weird.
That just goes to show that many of us need to look at a coin long and hard from all angles to really see what it looks like. One must be diligent in the purchase of coins.
It's a COPY of a Twenty Dollar Gold Piece, not a dime. Look again. TWENTY D. is on the reverse at the bottom.
Yes it does, John. It is an imitation numismatic item, regardless of what it is made out of. That means that it is required to have the incused "COPY" mark. I could quibble about the depth of the mark and the letter of the law, but I give them many points for the good faith effort.