Real or fake U.S. Trade Dollar? Please help.

Real or fake?

 

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The softness of the details, the porous surfaces, and the odd long thin dentals especially on the reve make me suspect a fake.

 

Really looks cast.

 

Looks like a lovely cast copy. A Trade Dollar without chop marks is a find butvthis looks fake.

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Not that I know much about them.
I keep hearing this is a coin type one should buy graded.
Would make a nice pocket piece for figiting...

Id have to join the crowd and say cast with the soft details and pot marks.

My Dad likes the trade dollars and has some really nice ones that stick to a magnet

 

It's bad. Mushy details, malformed dentils and rims, among other things.

 

I believe it's fake as well. They did a nice job with the toning and making it look like an old circulated coin.

 

Looks like an old cast fake

 

Any value in a fake like that?

 

Only if it's attributable as a contemporary counterfeit, so no.

 

You can't sell a coin you know to be fake, as a real coin.
You must label it counterfeit so the buyer understands what he is getting.
To me, maybe $5.

 

Actually, you can--it's done everyday--just not legally.

 

I definitely would not fraudulently represent it. Just was curious if there was any collectibility as a fake.

 

There are people who collect fakes. As long as the buyer and seller both know that the coin is not real, I think it's OK to sell in that situation.