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<p>[QUOTE="Collect89, post: 484469, member: 15445"]<b>better photos needed for my eyes.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">I'll take a shot at being wrong with this multiple choice quiz. </font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">Coin #1, If you give me a better photograph, then I could be more certain. To my eye, it has characteristics of both a genuine coin & a fake coin. There may be a raised spike of metal at the "O" at 5:00 on the reverse. There are dark Barber counterfeits known but this one gets the benefit of the doubt. I'll say it is genuine but I wouldn't bet a lot of money on it.</font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">Coin #2, has characteristics of planchet flaws and damaged dies and wait a minute, those don't look even look like struck denticles. Where planchet problems are struck by a device, it just looks all wrong. I think it is just a bad counterfeit.</font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">Coin #3, appears to be very very very worn. I can't find any details to see if it were struck & can't hear if it rings so all I can do is compare the image to the red book. Since the OP said only one is counterfeit, then I'll guess that this one is genuine.</font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">I can't wait to see how I did on this. </font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">Very best regards,</font></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">collect89</font></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Collect89, post: 484469, member: 15445"][b]better photos needed for my eyes.[/b] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]I'll take a shot at being wrong with this multiple choice quiz. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Coin #1, If you give me a better photograph, then I could be more certain. To my eye, it has characteristics of both a genuine coin & a fake coin. There may be a raised spike of metal at the "O" at 5:00 on the reverse. There are dark Barber counterfeits known but this one gets the benefit of the doubt. I'll say it is genuine but I wouldn't bet a lot of money on it.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Coin #2, has characteristics of planchet flaws and damaged dies and wait a minute, those don't look even look like struck denticles. Where planchet problems are struck by a device, it just looks all wrong. I think it is just a bad counterfeit.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Coin #3, appears to be very very very worn. I can't find any details to see if it were struck & can't hear if it rings so all I can do is compare the image to the red book. Since the OP said only one is counterfeit, then I'll guess that this one is genuine.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]I can't wait to see how I did on this. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Very best regards,[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]collect89[/FONT][/COLOR][/QUOTE]
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