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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hobo, post: 473828, member: 11521&quot;]I&#039;m looking at the 1875 Seated Lib Dime. One thing that looks suspicious (beyond the fact the coin looks &quot;too good&quot;) is the finning on the obverse from about 11:00 to about 4:00. (Finning is the thin raised metal along the outside of the rim. Finning is created when metal from the planchet flows into the small gap between the die and the collar when the coin is struck. While finning can occur in Business Strikes finning is more common in Proof coins because they are struck twice with higher pressure than Business Strikes. Counterfeiters sometimes compensate for weak details in their dies by striking their fake coins using higher pressure to bring out more details in their coins. This higher pressure can cause finning. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Finning alone is not enough to label this coin a counterfeit but it raises a red flag. But another thing also makes me suspicious. The ribbon on the shield should read LIBERTY but I can&#039;t make out any letters at all. The &quot;writing&quot; looks like gibberish. I don&#039;t like the looks of this coin at all.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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