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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rzage, post: 1310987, member: 14070&quot;]Dennis , they did a survey with a bunch of long time dealers and showed them a bunch of the higher quality Chinese fakes most couldn&#039;t tell the fakes were indeed fake . Since your coin is at least a very well made fake the only way to tell is to send it somewhere with the knowledge and equipment to tell , this means a repubattle tpg preferably PCGS , or NGC . Since it doesn&#039;t fit any of the die pairings for an 1805 , it is either a fake or for some reason an 1806 with the date changed . Most dealers won&#039;t be able to tell even if they say they can . I have a Trade dollar I bought raw , most everybody said it was real including a couple dealers and Trade dollar collectors . I finally took it to Tom DeLorey at Harlen Berks in Chicago , he wrote many articles on the Chinese counterfiet Trade dollars . After looking at mine he said that though no one thing could tell him it was fake , he thought it was a fake but couldn&#039;t be sure without further testing . At the very least point out that your coin has no wreath through the eagles claws and that only appears on 1806 coins and only on two die pairings . Good luck I hope it&#039;s real .[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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