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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bedford, post: 413763, member: 4917&quot;]<b>Todays coin 8/13/08</b></p><p><br /></p><p>What we have here today is an 1852 Gold dollar cast counterfiet.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin was a cast copy that has been harshly cleaned to help hide that fact.</p><p><br /></p><p>Still with proper examination we can point ot many of the diagnostics that will help you spot this type of fake.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;1st off the &quot;strike&quot; is terrible very flat &amp; mushy-with lots of &quot;crap&quot; or slag in the small areas around the devices.</p><p><br /></p><p>The denticles have a saw tooth like appearance &amp; go off at a diagonal.</p><p>There are spots of upset metal at the rim also almost all around the coin.</p><p>&nbsp;Finally there are many tiny raised bumps in spots all over the coin from the casting bubbles comming to the surface or from imperfections in the casts mold.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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