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Message:: [QUOTE="physics-fan3.14, post: 4859343, member: 19165"]Here's what I see: 1. The reeding is shallow, but very crisp. The bottom rim is razor sharp square.   -> hypothesis: this coin is a gift shop type piece made for sale as an imitation, and if we saw the face of the coin would be quickly obvious it is not genuine. 2. The reeding is not uniform, widely spaced, and irregular. There are "blobs" in places, and there are vertical lines which look like file-marks or some sort of shear.   -> hypothesis: this looks like the distortion I've seen on coins with added mintmarks. The counterfeiter will drill a hole into the edge of the coin, emboss a mintmark, and then fill and repair the edge. This looks like a bad repair-job. 3. The reeding is very wide, and very widely spaced. There is some rim damage at the top.   -> hypothesis: this is a machine struck counterfeit where they got the edge/reeding wrong. This type of reeding does appear on some foreign coins, but not US (that I'm aware of). 4. The reeding is crisp, although there are some irregularities in the width. There is also what appears to be some overlap.   -> hypothesis: this is a Morgan dollar with overlapping reeding (I think someone else mentioned this earlier.) See below for another example: <img src="http://ec2-13-58-222-16.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/w/images/8/89/ATT-101-OVERLAP-UPGRADE.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> 5. There is a prominent casting seam through the middle. There are casting bubbles evident throughout. The segments of reeding (top and bottom) do not align.   -> hypothesis: this is a cast counterfeit[/QUOTE]

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