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<p>[QUOTE="ksparrow, post: 653833, member: 7638"]OK, so here is the story on these four coins.</p><p>Exhibit A: in my opinion, a genuine 1876-cc DDR. Purchased (cherrypicked!) from a well known eBay seller who has a lot of trade dollars, usually "blast white." I have examined it minutely; the only thing a little questionable is the lightly struck dentils in a couple of spots, but even those are the right length. Interestingly,forgers got their hands on an 1876-DDR and made a transfer die from it some time ago, so a fair number of these that turn up raw are, in fact, fakes! The fakes almost always have a series of 3 depressions behind the eagle's head (mine does not). Fakes are also usually missing the doubled row of feathers in the center of the eagle's right wing.I also have seen a fake with a forger's mark: 2 impressions into the O of OF. Another marker of the DDR is the broken tops of the E's and the F on the upper legend. Other diagnostics are the 'whisker' under the eagle's jaw, the doubled branch at bottom right, and the doubled wingtip (eagle's left). While these are not rare, they are the strongest doubled variety in the series.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ksparrow, post: 653833, member: 7638"]OK, so here is the story on these four coins. Exhibit A: in my opinion, a genuine 1876-cc DDR. Purchased (cherrypicked!) from a well known eBay seller who has a lot of trade dollars, usually "blast white." I have examined it minutely; the only thing a little questionable is the lightly struck dentils in a couple of spots, but even those are the right length. Interestingly,forgers got their hands on an 1876-DDR and made a transfer die from it some time ago, so a fair number of these that turn up raw are, in fact, fakes! The fakes almost always have a series of 3 depressions behind the eagle's head (mine does not). Fakes are also usually missing the doubled row of feathers in the center of the eagle's right wing.I also have seen a fake with a forger's mark: 2 impressions into the O of OF. Another marker of the DDR is the broken tops of the E's and the F on the upper legend. Other diagnostics are the 'whisker' under the eagle's jaw, the doubled branch at bottom right, and the doubled wingtip (eagle's left). While these are not rare, they are the strongest doubled variety in the series.[/QUOTE]
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