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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 26438126, member: 27832&quot;]Then this is an excellent educational opportunity for you.</p><p><br /></p><p>That &quot;toning&quot; pattern <i>can</i> exist on real coins, and counterfeits <i>can</i> fail to display it. But an awful lot of counterfeits are colored exactly that way.</p><p><br /></p><p>And, yes, 11% weight loss is basically impossible. Any real coin with that weight would either have been struck on a planchet so thin that the design wouldn&#039;t have been fully struck up, or would be worn so heavily that you couldn&#039;t even see a date. (I&#039;ve seen &gt;10% weight loss on minor coins, but <i>never</i> on a silver dollar.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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