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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PaddyB, post: 2452819, member: 40017&quot;]I agree with Insider&#039;s comments about the impossibility of giving definitive answers on authenticity on the basis of pictures alone.</p><p>I would add that there are a great many good fakes of this coin around at the moment - I have two in my sin-bin already. I took one to a coin fair recently - clearly marked as a &quot;replica&quot;. A young Chinese gentleman, with not much English, took a great interest in it and was dismayed to learn it was not right when this was explained through an interpreter. It is sad that the fakers, mostly in the Far East and Indian sub-continent, have done so much damage to the coin collecting market across the world - even for their compatriots.</p><p>For me, with these coins, two things identify concerns on authenticity:</p><p>1. Even-ness of strike. The poorer copies suffer from weakly struck areas and sometimes even variations in font and style of letters.</p><p>2. The &quot;ding&quot; test. With experience you will discover that Silver coins have a different ring to them than cupro-nickel. (The latter has a tinnier, harsher sound to them.)</p><p>With your coin I would be concerned with the flatness of the leaves, which could be wear but looks more like a poor/uneven strike to me.</p><p>I hope that helps![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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