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Message:: [QUOTE="huntsman53, post: 101605, member: 1242"]Just like Speedy said, it is very hard to tell if a coin is a fake unless you have it in hand and sometimes not even then! Yesterday, a gentleman tried to sell an 1866 "Seated" Half Dollar for $125 to my friend who sets up a Flea Markets and Gun Shows. Luckily I was there at the time and told my friend and the gentleman that the coin was a counterfeit. The coin was in a clear Grading Service type holder, probably to keep anyone from measuring and weighing the coin for an authentic size and weight! The coin was a medium dull gray in color, the entire surface and details were grainy and the edges of the details a legends were not sharp as they should be if minted from a Die. It appears that the entire Date of your coins has been recut as well as some of the details on the Reverse including the arrows! The Date is definitely too upright and not slanted as it should be! I would guess that it was produced from a mold and sometimes the cast does not come out right due to air pockets, etc. and the Counterfeiter will fill the bad spots with the cast material and then recut some of the back out but the Date may have been pressed in with some sort of stamp. Frank[/QUOTE]