1795 Draped Bust off Centre Dollar . . Genuine?

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  1. TRU

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  3. Mat

    Mat Ancient Coincoholic

    Looks fake to me.
     
  4. TRU

    TRU New Member

    Any particular details to share?
     
  5. Treashunt

    Treashunt The Other Frank

    why?
     
  6. rzage

    rzage What Goes Around Comes Around .

    Looks good to me , at least without checking the die marriages . Though the color looks off .
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  7. Mat

    Mat Ancient Coincoholic

    It's the reverse seems to look off to me. There is good fakes of these.
     
  8. rzage

    rzage What Goes Around Comes Around .

    The 1 looks off , but if you're spending this kind of money I'd buy slabbed or from someone I really trusted like Harlan Berks .
     
  9. rzage

    rzage What Goes Around Comes Around .

    The bottom of the letters in America look off but that could be the pics .
     
  10. Mat

    Mat Ancient Coincoholic

    When it comes to coins like this, especially U.S., I agree. I would go for one in a legit slab.
     
  11. H8_modern

    H8_modern Attracted to small round-ish art

    I hate it when someone puts up a coin and lots of people quickly call it a fake. I don't have any specific reason for saying so but I don't think this one is legit. I'm not the kind of collector that can say it's off by .25mm or there are 7 berries instead of 8 between point X and point Y but it just looks wrong and too good.
     
  12. davidh

    davidh soloist gnomic

    Care to elaborate? Share your wisdom.
     
  13. TRU

    TRU New Member

    Can the weight can go beyond 27 gms or it must be 26.96 gms accurately to be legit?
     
  14. GDJMSP

    GDJMSP Numismatist Moderator

    There is a tolerance range. While it can vary from coin type to coin type you can use a general rule of thumb of 1% to get you close. That would make the range for this coin from 26.6904 to 27.2296.
     
  15. TRU

    TRU New Member

    @GDJMSP.. What do you feel about this very particular coin?
     
  16. GDJMSP

    GDJMSP Numismatist Moderator

    I don't see anything that really jumps out at me that says the coin is a fake. But then I would never buy a raw example of one unless I really knew the seller well and trusted him. There's just too many fakes out there, and some of them quite good.
     
  17. Conder101

    Conder101 Numismatist

    They were very strict on the tolerance of silver and gold coins. The 1% tolerance given by Doug is too great, at least for new coins. This coin was spec at 26.96 and the tolerance was only .09 grams or .33%. Maximum weight when new would be 27.05 grams
     
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