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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MustangMan, post: 283400, member: 10436&quot;]Hello all.&nbsp; I am new to this forum, and new to coins, period.</p><p><br /></p><p>Let me thank anyone who can help in advance, for your time, advice, and expertise.</p><p><br /></p><p>A family friend bought some coins with very old dates on them.&nbsp; </p><p>He asked me to help him to check if I could identify whether these coins were genuine.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know nothing of old coins, how to tell if they&#039;re genuine or not, etc.&nbsp; My gut feeling at first is that they are fake.&nbsp; It&#039;s best to be skeptical offhand in my point of view, but there&#039;s other reasons why.</p><p><br /></p><p>All of the coins have the same &quot;color&quot;.&nbsp; If there were no years on them, I&#039;d say they were all made on the same &quot;batch&quot; of silver (if that&#039;s what they used).&nbsp; Also, there is fading on several parts of these coins.&nbsp; I was reading through these forums, and learned that sometimes if a counterfeit is made, any scratches or dents on the original it was made from would be passed on to the counterfeit coins, but with more rounded edges.&nbsp; These coins don&#039;t have many scratches or &quot;pits&quot;, so I couldn&#039;t rely on that too much.&nbsp; So the best I could do for now is take pictures, as close as my cheap camera could, and hope you guys can help me.&nbsp; Once again, thank you for your time, I really do appreciate any help you can offer.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the pics:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b347/the-mustangman/6.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b347/the-mustangman/6.jpg" rel="nofollow">PIC 1</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b347/the-mustangman/5.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b347/the-mustangman/5.jpg" rel="nofollow">PIC 2</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b347/the-mustangman/4-1.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b347/the-mustangman/4-1.jpg" rel="nofollow">PIC 3</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b347/the-mustangman/3-1.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b347/the-mustangman/3-1.jpg" rel="nofollow">PIC 4</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b347/the-mustangman/2-1.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b347/the-mustangman/2-1.jpg" rel="nofollow">PIC 5</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b347/the-mustangman/1-1.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b347/the-mustangman/1-1.jpg" rel="nofollow">PIC 6</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Once again, thank you for your time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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