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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldCoinLover, post: 653751, member: 4336&quot;]The color on the obverse looks off, now I&#039;m no expert in this series but it just doesn&#039;t look right, like tmoneyeagles said it either has been cleaned, or...</p><p><br /></p><p>tmoney good job spotting the marks on the obverse at K12, I didn&#039;t see that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Windsor, you may want to look at the coin under magnification very closely at the neck area, and look for short stubby lines..these are toolmarks, alot of 2.50&#039;s and 5&#039;s have these, but not all. If its a real, I would guess AU58 as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edited to add: These suckers are harder than heck to authenticate, even more so than the $5 gold indians. When I took my authentication class , some of the coins we examined were counterfeit $2.50&#039;s, well, Brian the instructor said there were toolmarks in the recess of the neck, I knew they were there but I couldn&#039;t find them. It takes a very sharp eye, and this was the only series of coin I had a real tough time authenticating, other people had trouble with it too.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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