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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jack D. Young, post: 24618896, member: 93371&quot;]These are fooling even larger Bay Sellers...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1565086[/ATTACH]</p><p>A fair amount of work done to this one:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1565087[/ATTACH]</p><p>I created combination images to the known source coin for counterfeit draped bust half cents, an 1804 C-6 &quot;spiked chin&quot; (ref my Coin Week article!) on the left, a genuine crosslet 4 stemless C-12 example on the right:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1565088[/ATTACH]</p><p>Part of the spiked chin was removed and the date worked on; matches much of the C-6 on the left, not the C-12 on the right. Date is bad to both!</p><p><br /></p><p>And the reverses:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1565089[/ATTACH]</p><p>Again no match to the &quot;stemless&quot; but matches the C-6 die chip, letter relationships and has a &quot;stub&quot; where the stem was removed; interestingly the fraction and fraction bar were altered.</p><p><br /></p><p>I notified the seller and made an offer to add to my education set...</p><p><br /></p><p>Best, Jack.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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