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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mikem2000, post: 1483303, member: 30574&quot;]Well, I know it is a J-man piece because I bought it from him.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like I said though, the piece is only pretty good.</p><p><br /></p><p>From the photo there is only one thing I can say that definitively tells you that it is a fake.&nbsp; The die pairing is not correct.&nbsp; Look at the CC on the reverse.&nbsp; There is no VAM that matches that CC on an &#039;79.&nbsp; All but one of the reverses has the CC off-centered. The one that has a centered CC, has the CC spaced much wider.&nbsp; The J-man most likely used a common CC reverse as the &quot;model&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>In hand it gets a bit easier to tell. First is the reeding. It just doesn&#039;t feel right. It is raised too much and feels rough.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin is also not silver, or at least not all silver. (real silver for $30, no profit there) and the coin is light in weight.&nbsp; I can&#039;t remember the exact number but it was off more than enough to leave no doubt.&nbsp; Even without a scale, you can tell it is not silver by the ring test.</p><p><br /></p><p>That is it in a nutshell, some may disagree about me even buying it, but the way I see it, knowledge is king and If I share the knowledge, it is a win.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mike[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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