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<p>[QUOTE="Neal, post: 4956715, member: 43872"]Welcome to CT. I hope for your sake it is genuine. Wow, what a find that would be! But I have some doubts, although I make no claim to being an expert or close to it. The odds are against it. There are lots of fakes out there and very few genuine articles. The fact that it is magnetic is in its favor, but a plated steel counterfeit would also stick. The very weak strike is actually in its favor, in my opinion, since the equipment would have been adjusted for the bronze planchets in 1944, which require less pressure than a steel planchet. But a counterfeiter might also have been unable to reach the pressure required for steel. The doubling in E PLURIBUS UNUM looks suspicious, almost like a true doubled die. But it is hard to believe that a genuine doubled die would only be found on a single off-metal specimen, uncirculated, 76 years later. And would doubling that radical only show up in those letters on the edge? Again I'm no expert, but I would think not. Also, the general look and the luster just don't look right somehow to me. But like others have said, it might be worth sending it to a TPG. I hope I'm wrong.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Neal, post: 4956715, member: 43872"]Welcome to CT. I hope for your sake it is genuine. Wow, what a find that would be! But I have some doubts, although I make no claim to being an expert or close to it. The odds are against it. There are lots of fakes out there and very few genuine articles. The fact that it is magnetic is in its favor, but a plated steel counterfeit would also stick. The very weak strike is actually in its favor, in my opinion, since the equipment would have been adjusted for the bronze planchets in 1944, which require less pressure than a steel planchet. But a counterfeiter might also have been unable to reach the pressure required for steel. The doubling in E PLURIBUS UNUM looks suspicious, almost like a true doubled die. But it is hard to believe that a genuine doubled die would only be found on a single off-metal specimen, uncirculated, 76 years later. And would doubling that radical only show up in those letters on the edge? Again I'm no expert, but I would think not. Also, the general look and the luster just don't look right somehow to me. But like others have said, it might be worth sending it to a TPG. I hope I'm wrong.[/QUOTE]
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