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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldCoinLover, post: 357139, member: 4336&quot;]This is a very poorly made struck counterfeit.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some things I&#039;ve noticed. The denticals are slightly seperated and &quot;toothy&quot; as well as being uneven. There are numberous raised pimples, and toolmarks. Intially when I first saw the coin I did not notice the toolmarks. Several spikes from the denticals of the coin are also a bad sign it is counterfeit, although Bill Fivaz in his counterfeit detection book notes that 3% of struck gold coins with spikes are actually geniune. So to deem this coin counterfeit there should be more than one problem, which there is.</p><p><br /></p><p>To make die struck counterfeit gold, a geniune host coin is used in a transfer die process. The geniune coin is sacrificed to make counterfeit dies, which then make the coins. All coins struck by that counterfeit die will have the same features. Generally the first coins struck by counterfeit dies look more prooflike, unrealistic. As the die wears out this changes and the coins look more decieving.</p><p><br /></p><p>It would be interesting to see if this could has any depressions. Tilt the coin under a bright incandescent bulb and look for linear or depressions. Depressions are contact or bagmarks that were on the orginial geniune coin sacrificed to make the counterfeit coins. They should have luster in them, and be the same texture of the rest of the field and have soft, rounded edges. Rotate the coin 60 degrees to see them. The depression should blend to the rest of the field, whereas a contact mark on a geniune coin would stand out because it would be shiny on the outside part of the contact mark/bagmark.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hope this helps[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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