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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 8312675, member: 24314&quot;]Publius2, posted:&nbsp; &quot;Since you said &quot;comparison&quot; I assume that the mushy coin in the top photo is the counterfeit and the sharper coin in the lower photo is the genuine</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #660033"><i>Yes.</i></span></p><p><br /></p><p>Was the counterfeit cast? <i> </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><span style="color: #660033">No.</span></i></p><p><br /></p><p>It looks more cast than die-struck to me. </p><p><br /></p><p><i><span style="color: #660033">All of you should drop the word &quot;cast&quot; from your counterfeit opinions.&nbsp; Decent fakes have been DIE-STRUCK since the 1960&#039;s.&nbsp; <b>Unfortunately</b>, the counterfeit authorities of the day misinformed all of us back then that the fakes they wrote about (the crudely made struck examples) were cast counterfeits!&nbsp; <b>I personally have not seen a decent cast counterfeit of a US coin - EVER!&nbsp;&nbsp; </b></span></i></p><p><br /></p><p>Was it gold of the proper alloy or some other metal?</p><p><br /></p><p><i><span style="color: #660033">No, early C/F&#039;s such as this used a lower alloy of gold.&nbsp; The color of the fake was different.&nbsp; By the 1980&#039;s, the counterfeits were made of better gold.</span></i></p><p><br /></p><p>Do you know where the 1978 to 1983 counterfeits originated?&nbsp; Beirut?&nbsp; If there&#039;s a story there, I&#039;d like to hear it.</p><p><br /></p><p><i><span style="color: #660033">No. AFAIK the wars in that part of the world cut down on the Lebanese fakes. </span></i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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