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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1456712, member: 26302"]I have found there really isn't much point trying to find authenticate examples of these coins, trade dollars, bust dollars, or even morgans nowadays at a flea market. I have seen so many mulitiple hundreds of fakes its not worth the effort anymore. The coins you posted I literally have hundreds of, both magnetic and non-magnetic, that are all fakes. I get them in group lots of junk where I see a few good coins that I actually want.</p><p><br /></p><p>Those coins, unless slabbed or from a well respected dealer, are always suspected to be fake nowadays unless proven otherwise. By "proven", I mean exactly correct weight, diameter, thickness, read count, and die match to a proven example. They are getting to to point they are making non-magnetic, silver plated copies that are pretty good, so all of the old tests will not work. Its back to diagnostics of die and reeding against proven examples to be sure.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1456712, member: 26302"]I have found there really isn't much point trying to find authenticate examples of these coins, trade dollars, bust dollars, or even morgans nowadays at a flea market. I have seen so many mulitiple hundreds of fakes its not worth the effort anymore. The coins you posted I literally have hundreds of, both magnetic and non-magnetic, that are all fakes. I get them in group lots of junk where I see a few good coins that I actually want. Those coins, unless slabbed or from a well respected dealer, are always suspected to be fake nowadays unless proven otherwise. By "proven", I mean exactly correct weight, diameter, thickness, read count, and die match to a proven example. They are getting to to point they are making non-magnetic, silver plated copies that are pretty good, so all of the old tests will not work. Its back to diagnostics of die and reeding against proven examples to be sure.[/QUOTE]
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