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<p>[QUOTE="goincarcrazy, post: 888226, member: 25004"]<font face="Century Gothic">I guess this would be the right thread to post this, and as many of you say, you can't be 100% sure if something is fake or real just by photos, but judging by looks, what do you all think? </font></p><p><font face="Century Gothic"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Century Gothic">I got it at a coin show last year from a respected dealer. It was hanging out in his little display box with other trade dollars, both slabbed and raw. It's obviously cleaned pretty harshly, there's no question about that. I honestly have never weighed it as I don't have a scale, so I'll have to get back to everyone on that! And as you can see, it has some pretty significant doubling on the reverse, most of which has details that I doubt a casting could pick up, but I figure I'll throw it up to here, and in this thread (either as an example of real or fake). Thanks to all who look and thanks to everyone for the wonderful info that's posted here!</font></p><p><font face="Century Gothic"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Century Gothic"><img src="http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b2/goingcarcrazy/2737e32d.jpg?t=1273717403" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></p><p><font face="Century Gothic"></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="goincarcrazy, post: 888226, member: 25004"][FONT=Century Gothic]I guess this would be the right thread to post this, and as many of you say, you can't be 100% sure if something is fake or real just by photos, but judging by looks, what do you all think? I got it at a coin show last year from a respected dealer. It was hanging out in his little display box with other trade dollars, both slabbed and raw. It's obviously cleaned pretty harshly, there's no question about that. I honestly have never weighed it as I don't have a scale, so I'll have to get back to everyone on that! And as you can see, it has some pretty significant doubling on the reverse, most of which has details that I doubt a casting could pick up, but I figure I'll throw it up to here, and in this thread (either as an example of real or fake). Thanks to all who look and thanks to everyone for the wonderful info that's posted here! [IMG]http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b2/goingcarcrazy/2737e32d.jpg?t=1273717403[/IMG] [/FONT][/QUOTE]
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