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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 1807761, member: 57463&quot;]This is outside my area, but it just takes a look to see that this coin is questionable at best.&nbsp; I did a search for &quot;1873 cc Trade Dollar&quot; and found this image from David Lawrence.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://images.davidlawrence.com/ProductImagesCDN/361xxx/361825_r.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://images.davidlawrence.com/ProductImagesCDN/361xxx/361825_r.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://images.davidlawrence.com/ProductImagesCDN/361xxx/361825_r.jpg</a></p><p><br /></p><p>David Lawrence is well-known and highly respected. DLRC Press (David Lawrence Rare Coins) has published a dozen standard references by David Lange, Rick Tomaska, and others. </p><p><br /></p><p>So, I trust them as authoritative.&nbsp; The Mintmark CC on their picture does not match the one from the inquirer, endlessnameless.&nbsp; Books Before Coins says it all.&nbsp; (Just to edit in - I went to the PCGS Website recommended above. Quite a bit there to read.&nbsp; And checking the Red Book of course.)&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Trade Dollars are commonly faked.&nbsp; At an ANA convention I showed one in my talk on counterfeits before destroying it with bolt cutters.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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