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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 8238393, member: 24314&quot;]iontyre, posted: &quot;Check out the &#039;I&#039;s in United and America on the 1854 $3.&nbsp; Notice both have an identical missing serif!!&nbsp; That would be very highly unlikely on a mint produced coin.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Good Eye!&nbsp; We noticed this back in the day when some dealers questioned if we had certified a fake.&nbsp; We let them know that the counterfeit die copied that defect from a genuine coin.&nbsp; Unfortunately, I don&#039;t remember the date of that $3 (1857?). [EDIT: <i>I just checked.&nbsp; It was 1857 <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie50" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></i>] What you have shown is that very often (in the old days) the counterfeiters used an identical die (side w/o the date) to produce coins with several different dates.</p><p>This was one way many C/F&#039;s were detected back then.&nbsp; For example, we found</p><p>fake $2 1/2 gold coins spanning several decades made with the same reverse die!</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=88934]@CoinCorgi[/USER],</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m <b>not interested</b> in any of your &quot;takes.&quot;&nbsp; That <i><span style="color: #b30000">may</span></i> be the reason I put you on &quot;Ignore&quot; sometime (<b><span style="color: #b30000">?</span></b>) in the past. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie46" alt=":facepalm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie87" alt=":sorry:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>I&#039;m <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie30" alt=":bucktooth:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> the real <b>loser</b> here.&nbsp; It&#039;s unfortunate for me that for all that time (<b><span style="color: #b30000">?</span></b>) I missed out on <b><i><span style="color: #ff00ff">all your <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie26" alt=":bookworm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> very informative </span><span style="color: #b35900">posts</span><span style="color: #ff00ff"> dealing with numismatics.</span></i></b>&nbsp; I consider you <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie33" alt=":cigar:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> to be a very important &quot;foil&quot; around here.&nbsp; I wish I had your talent for humor.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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