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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 3017509, member: 27832&quot;]My first thought: &quot;I don&#039;t know much of anything about early copper, but...&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>My second thought: &quot;...I remember seeing a 1799 <i>dollar</i> show up in <i>my</i> local pawn shop a few weeks ago. Right next to an 1865 Washington quarter, silver dollar sized.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>My third thought: &quot;...but I <i>also</i> remember one of my first visits to that same shop, where they&#039;d laid out a bunch of Morgans for $22.88 each, and one of them was an 1895-O, and it was completely legit.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d try taking that half-cent back. Pawnbrokers aren&#039;t always the most upstanding dealers, but in my experience they do <i>not</i> want to get a reputation for passing off counterfeit goods as legitimate. (My shop presented that 1799 dollar, the &quot;quarter&quot;, and about six similar items as fakes, and sold the batch for $10 total.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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