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<p>[QUOTE="rzage, post: 1832197, member: 14070"]A specific gravity test comes to mind , but that will just tell you if it;s made from coin silver. After that it would come down to die marriages and I don't think there is a comprehensive list of die marriages for this series like they have for Bust halves and large cents . Next a high powered microscope . Any one who can tell you that they can tell with 100% accuracy just by looking at it is kidding themselves , or they have never seen a very high quality TD fake . Again I will use Tom Delorey as an example as one of the top Numismatists in the US and a writer of many fake Trade Dollar articles he could not tell me one of my Trade Dollars is real or fake , though he leaned towards fake , others have told me it's a Type I/TypeII with a micro S mm 1875 -S .[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="rzage, post: 1832197, member: 14070"]A specific gravity test comes to mind , but that will just tell you if it;s made from coin silver. After that it would come down to die marriages and I don't think there is a comprehensive list of die marriages for this series like they have for Bust halves and large cents . Next a high powered microscope . Any one who can tell you that they can tell with 100% accuracy just by looking at it is kidding themselves , or they have never seen a very high quality TD fake . Again I will use Tom Delorey as an example as one of the top Numismatists in the US and a writer of many fake Trade Dollar articles he could not tell me one of my Trade Dollars is real or fake , though he leaned towards fake , others have told me it's a Type I/TypeII with a micro S mm 1875 -S .[/QUOTE]
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