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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bob Lindstrom, post: 2258029, member: 76097&quot;]This coin was brought to my attention by a fellow member.&nbsp; He asked me to comment on what I saw.&nbsp; Here&#039;s my two bits.&nbsp; This is an obvious fake and the first thing that you want to do is just look at the overall appeal.&nbsp; This coin is lacking a lot of breast feathers, wing feathers and that would be my first tell.&nbsp; Not that there aren&#039;t Morgans with such lousy detail it is just that there are virtually no CC Morgans so poorly made.</p><p>The next is to put a loupe to the coin...I just use a 5x pocket loupe and that works just fine.&nbsp; Counterfeits are made by taking a real coin and then casting a copy, hardening it into a die and then striking new blanks with the cast produced die.</p><p>Casting involves the use of liquid metal and boy is that stuff hot!&nbsp; In so producing a new die the process of casting leaves tell tale cooling bubbles on the new &quot;die&quot;.&nbsp; These are transferred to the new coin and show up as pimples or little bumps.&nbsp; Also when casting a new die, sometimes the metal does not flow properly and thus leaves out details that were on the original host coin...thus the lack of feathers as noted.&nbsp; Here&#039;s a look at the reverse with those &quot;problems&quot; circled.&nbsp; Enjoy.</p><p>bob<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r213/auandag/79CC%20-%202fake.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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