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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 8297769, member: 24314&quot;]ifthevamzarockin, posted: &quot;I agree the mint mark looks off.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><i>What&#039;s the difference between an altered coin and a counterfeit?</i></p><p><br /></p><p>An altered coin is a genuine coin that has been messed with a counterfeit coin was not made by the US Mint or the mint it should have come from.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie10" alt=":oops:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie87" alt=":sorry:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> I guess I <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie30" alt=":bucktooth:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> assumed too much. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie46" alt=":facepalm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie45" alt=":eggface:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> If you didn&#039;t know this &quot;cocked S&quot; was commonly seen on counterfeits as stated later in the thread, guessing it was an added &quot;S&quot; was <span style="color: #b30000">actually a very good guess.</span> <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> The coin is too thin to have an &quot;embossed S.&quot;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Any Indian gold having an actual added Mint mark that has been placed on the coin would be EXTREMELY RARE.&nbsp; A few MUST (?) exist; but with over a century of combined authentication work at ICG, one authenticator (not me) thinks he MAY HAVE seen one put on a 1911 $2 1/2.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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