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<p>[QUOTE="mikediamond, post: 121390, member: 1859"]Some people do collect struck counterfeits, so I think I would be worth at least $5 - $10 if offered up on eBay AS a counterfeit.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sending it to NGC would simply be a waste of money as this is not even close to being convincing.</p><p><br /></p><p>While weak second strikes following a normal first strike are a reality, such an error would look nothing like your quarter. You'd still have the sharp, interrmittent penetration of the first strike through the second, and you wouldn't have the roughened surface and attentuated letters (IN GOD WE TRUST) that we see in your specimen. Also, both faces on your coins show deep crescentic grooves at the inner margin of the second strike that look like rim impressions. Authentic dies don't have any protrusions that would correspond to these depressed semicircles.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="mikediamond, post: 121390, member: 1859"]Some people do collect struck counterfeits, so I think I would be worth at least $5 - $10 if offered up on eBay AS a counterfeit. Sending it to NGC would simply be a waste of money as this is not even close to being convincing. While weak second strikes following a normal first strike are a reality, such an error would look nothing like your quarter. You'd still have the sharp, interrmittent penetration of the first strike through the second, and you wouldn't have the roughened surface and attentuated letters (IN GOD WE TRUST) that we see in your specimen. Also, both faces on your coins show deep crescentic grooves at the inner margin of the second strike that look like rim impressions. Authentic dies don't have any protrusions that would correspond to these depressed semicircles.[/QUOTE]
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