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Message:: [QUOTE="snaz, post: 720135, member: 11315"]Ok, so I will not claim to be a capped Bust Dime expert, I know nothing about the series. But upon receiving this counterfeit in the mail, I have studied it and compared it to pictures of real ones on Heritage and this is what I have come up with:3.75 grams OBVERSE <ul> <li>The stars around teh outside of the coin are too fat and mushy. As opposed to skinny, and pointy tips.</li> <li>The Denticles are much different than you would expect to see on an authentic version. They are long and narrow, as opposed to short and fat.</li> <li>You will notice the details on the bust, and face are all wrong. There are several missing curls in the hair, and all the detail in "Liberty" is missing.</li> </ul>REVERSE <ul> <li>The very first thing I noticed was the eagles mouth isn't even open!</li> <li>The "E PLURIBUS UNUM" is raised off the coin, as opposed to incuse like on the authentic version.</li> <li>There is a huge lack in detail on the eagle, and way too many bars on the shield.</li> <li>The arrows are way too small, and don't come nearly close enough to the rim.</li> <li>And.. I'm pretty sure they used a completley different font on the  "United States Of America".</li> </ul>COUNTERFEIT <img src="http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh261/snaz101/1809CappedBust.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> AUTHENTIC <img src="http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh261/snaz101/1809ANACS.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]

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