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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paul M., post: 5285070, member: 73165&quot;]John, you know I always love your posts about these very deceptive counterfeits.&nbsp; Almost all of them would have fooled me, including this one.&nbsp; Fortunately, it&#039;s a key date, and I collect primarily by type.&nbsp; There are a lot fewer fakes of generic type coins than there are of key dates, I would guess. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t mean to start anything by naming &quot;He Who Shall Not Be Named&quot; here, but the luster on that coin reminds me a lot of one of Dan Carr&#039;s satin finish coins.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Consider me fooled.&nbsp; The worst part is that the thing that would have attracted me to that coin (the cool obverse die crack) is one of the things that gives it away as a fake.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That half reminds me of an SLQ I have.&nbsp; Everything looks perfect on it, except the date: it just says 192.&nbsp; I bought it as a curiosity from someone who said that Jay Kline once owned it.&nbsp; Everybody I&#039;ve ever shown it to is completely baffled by it.&nbsp; PCGS sent it back and basically said &quot;we don&#039;t know what this is, either.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll see if I can get a pic of it up here sometime.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I went through every 1884-S on eBay certified and graded AU58 or better, and couldn&#039;t match it either.&nbsp; Then, I went to PCGS CoinFacts and looked at 1884-CC.&nbsp; Three of the first 4 listed there had the exact die crack I mentioned would be the thing that interested me.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You think that was done on purpose?&nbsp; I&#039;ve always thought die cracks couldn&#039;t really be replicated on a die struck fake.&nbsp; Even if they could be, you could end up with a die with a reduced lifespan.&nbsp; Bare minimum, when the die cracked further, it probably wouldn&#039;t crack the same way as the original die, unless the original was a very late die state, such that there aren&#039;t really any more advanced die state coins available.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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