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<p>[QUOTE="Scottyd500, post: 2066853, member: 73452"]I had the top right one as my guess too. There's some oddities about the extra dark patina, as well as some irregularities in the features, esp. the eye. I "bought" a fake Seated Liberty dollar from China a couple years back, expected it to be fake, but it was not advertised as such. It just was too good a price though. So, I checked it carefully when I received it, oddly enough, they're trying harder now to fool coin collectors, this one the weight was right. But, the thickness of the coin was wrong. It wasn't silver in other words, and it was features wise and otherwise a good fake, except for that thickness (to compensate for the lighter weight metal they used, probably some sort of nickel alloy). I'll try to dig it out and post a picture of it to see if you all can tell from looking at it. I wouldn't have otherwise suspected it probably. If you had a whole stack of them, it would be obvious though, since they would be taller in a stack than ordinary dollars.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Scottyd500, post: 2066853, member: 73452"]I had the top right one as my guess too. There's some oddities about the extra dark patina, as well as some irregularities in the features, esp. the eye. I "bought" a fake Seated Liberty dollar from China a couple years back, expected it to be fake, but it was not advertised as such. It just was too good a price though. So, I checked it carefully when I received it, oddly enough, they're trying harder now to fool coin collectors, this one the weight was right. But, the thickness of the coin was wrong. It wasn't silver in other words, and it was features wise and otherwise a good fake, except for that thickness (to compensate for the lighter weight metal they used, probably some sort of nickel alloy). I'll try to dig it out and post a picture of it to see if you all can tell from looking at it. I wouldn't have otherwise suspected it probably. If you had a whole stack of them, it would be obvious though, since they would be taller in a stack than ordinary dollars.[/QUOTE]
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