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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cpm9ball, post: 895288, member: 24633&quot;]Eda,</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I&#039;m concerned that the coin might not be authentic. It is common knowledge that counterfeits have been circulating in the Asian market for a long time. What concerns me about your coin are the denticles along the rim. If you look on the obverse, you will note that the denticles are slightly longer at 6 o&#039;clock beneath the date, and they are slightly shorter at 12 o&#039;clock above Liberty&#039;s head. This, in itself, is not unusual because the planchet may have been slightly off-center in the coining chamber. The problem arises when you examine the denticles on the reverse.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>You must keep in mind that U.S. coins are struck in what we call &quot;coin turn&quot; and that means that the reverse is upside down in relation to the obverse when they are struck. Therefore, if the planchet had been slightly off-center, the denticles on the reverse should be slightly longer at the 12 o&#039;clock position and slightly shorter at the 6 o&#039;clock position. As you can see on your coin, this is not the case.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>What I believe may have happened is that a counterfeiter used a duplicating lathe to transfer the obverse image of a real coin to a working die and the alignment in this process was slightly off-center, but instead of turning the coin over in an upside down position to make the reverse die, they turned it in an upright position which produced the same off-center alignment in the wrong position.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This leads me to wonder if the coin is silver or not. If you have access to a scale, the coin should weigh 26.73 gms.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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