I agree with Doug's assessment of AU55 details (possibly altered surfaces? might be the pic tho) and I also think that the coin is genuine. The...
It's getting late today and I'm working on a pretty good migraine but tomorrow I'm going to get the $2.5's out and really dig into the rims and...
They are definitely depressions not not contact marks.
The odds of that coin being legit are about the same odds as a donkey winning the Kentucky derby.
Here are the pics of the other 2. In hand they look pretty good but when I was editing the pictures I can see some weakness in the headdress's....
You may very be correct Doug. From my experience when they cast the $2.5's a lot of the time they have to go back and recut some of the feathers...
The $2.5's I'm sure are struck. The $10 and the $20 could very well be cast. I didn't see any retooling of some of the deeper devices that you see...
Not in a direct way. It was the inspiration I needed to finally pursue this project. I have been thinking about doing something like this for a...
9 out of the last 15 classic US gold coins I had walk into the shop were counterfiet's. I was able to buy 6 of them for scrap. I will make sure to...
I figured that I see enough pieces that I should at least take some good pictures of them and share the knowledge... that's what we are all here...
Another key on that saint was the fact that the mark in the rays was raised if I remember right... It's a bubbling pile of molten metal now so I...
Art, These came out if a old collection I bought today so I assume they are some of the older foreign stuff. As far as the weight I weighed the...
I'll sure try to post good pics of them as they come by me.
Got another pair this afternoon. Both of these coins show tooling in the neck and some light pitting in the fields. They both also show some...
Hey Gang! I wanted to start a post to chronicle the counterfiet gold coins we get through the shop. This is going to be a study in just how good...
You know almost all of the time the counterfeits are made out of 90% gold just like the originals... so you might know what gold feels like in...
Unfortuneately it looks like this is not a mint error but rather something done later by someone to make it look like an error. I would call it...
no, most times those coins have a premium.... unless counterfiet of course.
It was!!
I have scrapped a lot of watches and even the biggest chunkiest pocket watch I have ever scrapped was around $1,500 of gold with the chain.
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