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Message:: [QUOTE="SuperDave, post: 2503357, member: 1892"]I have to say I'm not particularly confident of either, for interrelated and in some cases anecdotal reasons. The denticles of the Trade Dollar are an immediate red flag; they should be far sharper than that even into Fine levels of wear and below. Further, in no case should they extend all the way to the rim, possibly excepting an off-center or misaligned-die strike in which case the opposite side of that face should be markedly away from the rim. I don't believe the surfaces should show anywhere near the "porosity" notable in your closeups, nor should there be such a disparity in size between the two stars shown in the detail. There's more but that's enough; the denticles alone are enough to drive me from thinking this one authentic. The 1842, having been shot at an oblique angle which distorts every single detail potentially beneficial to authentication, causes me to fall back on anecdotal thinking: It came from the same place as what I consider to be an obviously fake Trade Dollar, and well over half of the counterfeit Seated Dollars I've seen in over a decade of 30-hour weeks participating on fora like this one - likely 200 different examples at a minimum - have been 1842's or 1845's. Let's just say I'm not confident.... Look closely at the relief details inside the wings on the reverse. Or, I should say, the fatal lack thereof.[/QUOTE]