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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1595437, member: 66&quot;]I didn&#039;t see the reeded edge on the picture of the 1796 obverse the first time he posted it.&nbsp; That right there would condemn it as a fake.</p><p><br /></p><p>It probably was struck in a close collar but that can&nbsp; sometimes be hard to tell from a straight on shot.</p><p><br /></p><p>Claims of things from inheritances also have to be taken with a grain of salt.&nbsp; For a long time here in the US a common treasure that turned up in great great grandads old civil war chest that hadn&#039;t been opened for over a hundred years was a $1000 note of the Bank of the United States dated 1840 and they would be sure it was worth a fortune.</p><p><br /></p><p>And they all had the serial number 8894.&nbsp; A souvenir item printed by a souvenir company in the late 1950&#039;s.&nbsp; (there is a real 8894 note, in the companies vault)&nbsp; The families can never seem to explain how it got in grampas trunk some 70 years before it was printed, or how I could tell them the date and serial number before they even showed it to me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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