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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 965449, member: 26302"]To be honest I spent 5 seconds looking at the photo. The color is that of the fakes coming out of China. It is the "old coin, trying to look old, so I bury it for 6 months in chicken droppings" look. If you see them, if they are all similar color you know they are all fakes. Groups of these coins are usually extremely easy to spot they are fake, its when they are separate they are harder to tell.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just ask yourself, why would granddad have only cc's? S mints were much more common for these, shouldn't a few be s or no mintmarks?</p><p><br /></p><p>If you really wanted to pursue it, bring along a digital scale, luckily most of these forgers are greedy and do not use the correct alloy in their coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 965449, member: 26302"]To be honest I spent 5 seconds looking at the photo. The color is that of the fakes coming out of China. It is the "old coin, trying to look old, so I bury it for 6 months in chicken droppings" look. If you see them, if they are all similar color you know they are all fakes. Groups of these coins are usually extremely easy to spot they are fake, its when they are separate they are harder to tell. Just ask yourself, why would granddad have only cc's? S mints were much more common for these, shouldn't a few be s or no mintmarks? If you really wanted to pursue it, bring along a digital scale, luckily most of these forgers are greedy and do not use the correct alloy in their coins.[/QUOTE]
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