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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bqcoins, post: 1393944, member: 5036&quot;]I picked this up yesterday, knowing full well that it was a counterfeit, but thinking that maybe it might be a contemporary counterfeit and not a new Chinese one.&nbsp; The coin weighs in at 12.86g and is 30mm.&nbsp; The general look without a loop was good, so I looped it and i noticed what appeared to be casting bubbles in and around the date, some around the bust.&nbsp; So I thought, ok, maybe there is a rust pitted die I don&#039;t know about or something.&nbsp; SO I dropped it on the counter, where it utterly failed the ring test.&nbsp; It just went clunk, very dull sounding, so I knew then it was a counterfeit.&nbsp; It was good enough however to have fooled me for a few minutes.&nbsp; SO, I thought maybe it was cast from a real coin.&nbsp; The wear seems uneven, as if it were actually passed around opposed to some of the artificial wear you see simulated on some fakes.&nbsp; I started comparing it to the book, but have been having a hard time attributing its parent coin.&nbsp; The best I could come up with was that it might have been an O-142, maybe an O-143.&nbsp; Any thought on this guys.&nbsp; I&#039;ve posted a couple different exposures for y&#039;all.</p><p><img src="http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff71/bqcoins/011.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff71/bqcoins/007-1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff71/bqcoins/012-1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff71/bqcoins/018.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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