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<p>[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 3663365, member: 27832"]I'm not an expert on these by any means, but the $1 gold doesn't make me suspicious. The $3 is a bit too fuzzy to say.</p><p><br /></p><p>Having said that, <i>I'd</i> be particularly nervous about authenticity on any raw $3 gold.</p><p><br /></p><p>If it were me, I'd take these to a show where there are a number of dealers present, and show them around. If nobody is confident that they're genuine, I'd be tempted to send them to ICG or ANACS for slabbing; neither is terribly expensive, and both are reliable for authentication.</p><p><br /></p><p>I see signs of both luster and cleaning on the dollar coin. I can't tell anything about the surfaces on the $3, but if it's genuine, it's worth multiple times its gold value. (Current gold value would be $221 or so; even a cleaned $3 gold would go for at least $600, possibly a good bit more.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 3663365, member: 27832"]I'm not an expert on these by any means, but the $1 gold doesn't make me suspicious. The $3 is a bit too fuzzy to say. Having said that, [I]I'd[/I] be particularly nervous about authenticity on any raw $3 gold. If it were me, I'd take these to a show where there are a number of dealers present, and show them around. If nobody is confident that they're genuine, I'd be tempted to send them to ICG or ANACS for slabbing; neither is terribly expensive, and both are reliable for authentication. I see signs of both luster and cleaning on the dollar coin. I can't tell anything about the surfaces on the $3, but if it's genuine, it's worth multiple times its gold value. (Current gold value would be $221 or so; even a cleaned $3 gold would go for at least $600, possibly a good bit more.)[/QUOTE]
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