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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 135124, member: 669&quot;]I know nothing about the 1799s, but the TDs show the wide rims typical of Chinese castings.&nbsp; The pictures are too washed out to tell whether the surfaces have the typical grainy look of those fakes.</p><p><br /></p><p>At least as many counterfeits circulated alongside genuine TDs as the number of legitimate coins, so age alone is no guarantee.&nbsp; Besides, unless you are quite a bit older than I am (73), your grandfather wasn&#039;t alive to remove the coins from circulation - and there&#039;s no guarantee that the person he bought them from sold the real thing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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