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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 4042178, member: 101855&quot;]One look told me that it is a counterfeit. The relief on the reverse is all wrong with the eagle’s body way too high off the surface of the coin. The design is also missing the deepest parts of the details which are most often lost when a less than great counterfeiter makes a second rate copy. </p><p><br /></p><p>The date, “1921” is also much stronger than the rest of the obverse. That tells me that the clandestine China (probably) mint has this design ready made and just added dates to it as needed. </p><p><br /></p><p>It’s sad, but not surprising that a couple of dealers would be fooled by this. Some years ago, one of the Coin World editors took a group of Chinese counterfeits out to the floor of the Winter FUN show to see if any of the dealers would buy them as genuine. Unfortunately she found a fair number of takers. Unfortunately some dealers don’t know their business as well as they should.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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