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<p>[QUOTE="LostDutchman, post: 564440, member: 16994"]$2.5, $5, and $10 Indians are notorious for being heavily counterfeited and the counterfeits are very good. From the pictures provided it is impossible to say what the giveaway is for the coin being counterfeited, if its some recutting in the headdress, or a lump or some weakness somewhere on the coin... will bring back a counterfiet... because it is not a genuine coin. I do see what appears to be a bit of porosity in the obverse field, this very well might be it. </p><p><br /></p><p>These counterfeits are good, very good. They were made to fool collectors, people who study these things... and they still fool people all the time. The best advice I can give you is to study the coin hard because if it came back from just one major grading service as a counterfiet then it is most definitely a counterfiet.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="LostDutchman, post: 564440, member: 16994"]$2.5, $5, and $10 Indians are notorious for being heavily counterfeited and the counterfeits are very good. From the pictures provided it is impossible to say what the giveaway is for the coin being counterfeited, if its some recutting in the headdress, or a lump or some weakness somewhere on the coin... will bring back a counterfiet... because it is not a genuine coin. I do see what appears to be a bit of porosity in the obverse field, this very well might be it. These counterfeits are good, very good. They were made to fool collectors, people who study these things... and they still fool people all the time. The best advice I can give you is to study the coin hard because if it came back from just one major grading service as a counterfiet then it is most definitely a counterfiet.[/QUOTE]
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