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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2430517, member: 24314&quot;]Diagnostics: </p><p><br /></p><p>$3 old fake from 70&#039;s.&nbsp; Color off due to bad alloy. Fatty letters and numerals.&nbsp; Round berries in wreath. Outside rim and dentils are completely wrong.&nbsp; Blobs of EM in field under &quot;S.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>$2 1/2&nbsp; Old fake from same period.&nbsp; Ditto alloy and color.&nbsp; Usual &quot;old&quot; C/F rev with pimples in field above left wing. Tool marks from dentils on both sides.</p><p><br /></p><p>1880-S&nbsp; This is in &quot;bad company&quot; but 100% genuine from photo.&nbsp; Note the &quot;life&quot; coming from the surface vs the washed-out look of the other two having no range of cartwheel.&nbsp; Both fakes have very nice luster; it is just not the uneven genuine mint luster.&nbsp; Pink diagonal patches thru date are places where the copper was once oxidized to black and someone put Ezest on them to remove the black.&nbsp; So far, this is a characteristic very, very rarely seen on a c/f.&nbsp; Cannot tell if that is debris or damage on the rim.&nbsp; check rim for mount removal but the coin does not look like ex-jewelry.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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