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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ksparrow, post: 2105535, member: 7638&quot;]Thanks, large clear photos are a godsend!&nbsp; I couldn&#039;t tell much of anything from the ones in the OP.&nbsp;&nbsp; If I am interpreting the lighting correctly, those are indeed raised &#039;blems&#039; on the coin surface. The defective dentils look &#039;as made&#039; and not damage, which I could not tell previously.&nbsp; Also, the tips of some dentils from 12 to 3 show tooling marks on them.&nbsp;&nbsp; Many of the letters also have&nbsp; a&nbsp; rounded, &#039;pillow&#039; look to them.&nbsp;&nbsp; IMO, a better than average fake made to fool collectors.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, for some reason last night the zoom feature wasn&#039;t working on my computer and I could not get a really close look at the reeding.&nbsp; Today it is working and I see that: (1) the beveling of the ends of the reeds is not uniform (2) some of the reed ends are malformed, and not from damage and (3) the fine vertical lines that should be in the &#039;valleys&#039;--&nbsp; aren&#039;t there.&nbsp; My faith in the edge as a counterfeit detection tool remains firm.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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