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<p>[QUOTE="satootoko, post: 57706, member: 669"]As Jody526 mentioned, education is the key. If you know exactly what a genuine piece should look like, what coloration it should have, how much it should weigh, what its diameter and thickness should be, what kind of strike to expect, and how it should show wear, you will usually spot all but the most perfect fakes.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, check out <a href="http://www.cointalk.org/thread7484-fake-trade-dollars-.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.org/thread7484-fake-trade-dollars-.html" rel="nofollow">>> this thread <<</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>And, never forget that the problems with US Trade Dollars also exist with British and Japanese Trade Dollars, Meiji era Japanese Yen, and all the other silver crowns which circulated in the Far East during the 19th and early 20th Centuries. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="satootoko, post: 57706, member: 669"]As Jody526 mentioned, education is the key. If you know exactly what a genuine piece should look like, what coloration it should have, how much it should weigh, what its diameter and thickness should be, what kind of strike to expect, and how it should show wear, you will usually spot all but the most perfect fakes. Also, check out [URL=http://www.cointalk.org/thread7484-fake-trade-dollars-.html]>> this thread <<[/URL]. And, never forget that the problems with US Trade Dollars also exist with British and Japanese Trade Dollars, Meiji era Japanese Yen, and all the other silver crowns which circulated in the Far East during the 19th and early 20th Centuries. :([/QUOTE]
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