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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1025491, member: 19463&quot;]Yes and the general soft details.&nbsp; Often there will be a line on the edge where two haves of a mold were joined or a file mark where that line was removed.&nbsp; When a coin is struck between dies, there is a look of sharp detail that is hard to reproduce when molten metal flows into an impression.&nbsp; Obviously there are modern casting techniques that are better than others but this one looks like a home workshop product made for the tourist trade.&nbsp; I do not claim to be immune from the best cast fakes but I agree with Randy that this one looks &#039;bad&#039;.&nbsp; On the side, I&#039;m not aware of the two sides shown here being used together on real coins but I did not research that completely so I could be wrong there.&nbsp; When it comes to suspected fakes, some of us call them &#039;out&#039; before we have given them all three &#039;strikes&#039;.&nbsp; Real or fake, a coin with grainy surfaces, soft details and a general suspicious look is not collectable IMHO.&nbsp; This is at least 99% certainly fake.&nbsp; I apologize to the coin if the photo made it look bad and it is in the 1%.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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