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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2743003, member: 24314&quot;]The coin looks OK.&nbsp; One thing I should add (I was there):</p><p><br /></p><p>There were <b><span style="color: #ff0000">NO</span></b> counterfeit U.S. gold coins of the correct weight and fineness in the 1960&#039;s.&nbsp; I want to say there were also NO counterfeit gold coins of the correct weight and fineness up to the late 1970&#039;s either, but there may have been a half dozen by then.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was not until the early to mid-1980&#039;s when the counterfeits were really up to snuff.&nbsp; One early authenticator/instructor told the class that by the 1980&#039;s you could take the official weight standard given by the Mint for say $5 gold Indians and the counterfeits would fall almost exactly on the weight while the genuine coins would be all over the place.</p><p><br /></p><p>PS The reason it is hard to see the details on the wing is because they are not there.&nbsp; The coin is AU.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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