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<p>[QUOTE="Collect89, post: 1006345, member: 15445"]<b>Nice Photos !</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Let me share an experience of mine from a long time ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>Education & experience with counterfeit detection is key if you plan to buy raw coins. I recall being offered a 3-legged Buffalo nickel. I did not buy it because I did not know how to identify it as real and I knew that there were many fakes sold. I could have bought it at a great price but I passed on it. That evening, I studied & learned how to authenticate the 3-legger so that would never happen to me again. </p><p><br /></p><p>Yep, education & experience with counterfeit detection is key if you plan to buy raw coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your photos are great! You previously said that the coins didn't look right & that is the first step in detecting a fake. Your examples look like poor <u>cast</u> fakes. You can see casting bubbles & un-natural roughness on all the surfaces. The denticles are poorly formed. If you look at the reeded edges, you will probably see that they are not sharply reeded as a normal <u>struck</u> coin would be. Do your 1796 & 1799 dollars have a reeded edge? It is not supposed to be reeded.....</p><p><br /></p><p>The weight of cast fakes is almost always off. The diameter of the fakes may also be off. Those are two easy things to check.</p><p><br /></p><p>P.S. The China factories do not use silver when they make cast fakes. They use metal alloys which are worth nothing. If they were real coins, then you would be a very rich man this weekend.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Collect89, post: 1006345, member: 15445"][b]Nice Photos ![/b] Let me share an experience of mine from a long time ago. Education & experience with counterfeit detection is key if you plan to buy raw coins. I recall being offered a 3-legged Buffalo nickel. I did not buy it because I did not know how to identify it as real and I knew that there were many fakes sold. I could have bought it at a great price but I passed on it. That evening, I studied & learned how to authenticate the 3-legger so that would never happen to me again. Yep, education & experience with counterfeit detection is key if you plan to buy raw coins. Your photos are great! You previously said that the coins didn't look right & that is the first step in detecting a fake. Your examples look like poor [U]cast[/U] fakes. You can see casting bubbles & un-natural roughness on all the surfaces. The denticles are poorly formed. If you look at the reeded edges, you will probably see that they are not sharply reeded as a normal [U]struck[/U] coin would be. Do your 1796 & 1799 dollars have a reeded edge? It is not supposed to be reeded..... The weight of cast fakes is almost always off. The diameter of the fakes may also be off. Those are two easy things to check. P.S. The China factories do not use silver when they make cast fakes. They use metal alloys which are worth nothing. If they were real coins, then you would be a very rich man this weekend.[/QUOTE]
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