Help with 1852 half cent

I just need help with that 1852 half cent . I read that there were just proof versions of this, and the rest were either restrikes or counterfeit .So how to identify if I have a restrike or is it just another fake? And can you give me some more info about this piece. thank you for help

 

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I think the restrikes were proofs also. Yours doesen't look like a proof. So.................

 

I looked up some of the pictures of the same coin and they didn't look like proof either. I watched heritage auction pictures of the same coin, and some of them looked close to my coin image

 

This is a fake. There were no "original" 1852 half cents, they are all proof "restrikes" and were made on at least three different occasions from three different reverse dies. But all of the "restrikes" used the same obverse die and it does not match this coin. Even the electrotypes made in the 19th century were made from the "restrikes" and have the same obverse characteristics. So it is not one of the restrikes or an electrotype, that makes it better than 99.9% certain that it is a fake.