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<p>[QUOTE="JCro57, post: 4025942, member: 92083"]Jon Sullivan commented on this SBA on another forum and is very confident it is not genuine.</p><p><br /></p><p>He actually studied a group of different errors from "Charles Silverstone" that he had in front of him at one time and noticed several had similar die markings that were struck on different dates and different mints for various denominations.</p><p><br /></p><p>This means some of these dies would have had to have been passed around to various Mints over a long period of time. Not only is this unlikely, it is beyond absurd.</p><p><br /></p><p>This guy also used his handful of fake dies to strike genuine Mint planchets, struck coins, and even some genuine errors which made it harder to detect. Fred Weinberg is very open about these and notes some were even slabbed by PCGS - that is how good these were. Below is one that was slabbed by NGC.</p><p><br /></p><p>So yeah, if Sullivan feels it is not genuine, I support his findings that the SBA is fake. Honestly, none of us here examined these before so all we have is conjecture. I have to go with someone who studied them personally and recognizes die markings on other fakes.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1058421[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1058423[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1058424[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="JCro57, post: 4025942, member: 92083"]Jon Sullivan commented on this SBA on another forum and is very confident it is not genuine. He actually studied a group of different errors from "Charles Silverstone" that he had in front of him at one time and noticed several had similar die markings that were struck on different dates and different mints for various denominations. This means some of these dies would have had to have been passed around to various Mints over a long period of time. Not only is this unlikely, it is beyond absurd. This guy also used his handful of fake dies to strike genuine Mint planchets, struck coins, and even some genuine errors which made it harder to detect. Fred Weinberg is very open about these and notes some were even slabbed by PCGS - that is how good these were. Below is one that was slabbed by NGC. So yeah, if Sullivan feels it is not genuine, I support his findings that the SBA is fake. Honestly, none of us here examined these before so all we have is conjecture. I have to go with someone who studied them personally and recognizes die markings on other fakes. [ATTACH=full]1058421[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1058423[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1058424[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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