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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2973606, member: 76194&quot;]One thing you have to learn as a collector is to distinguish mushiness from wear. In the above examples, with the details that you can see on the helmets/portraits, I would expect a much sharper coin overall. The weaknesses you see on the coin design are not consistent with what you would expect from natural wear on a coin, but rather mushiness from a cast.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, the surfaces exhibit the classic pimples and bubbles (indentations and irregular raised bumps on the surface) which you get from a casting job when air bubbles formed between the original coin used and the cast that was made out of it in order to forge other coins. Although pimples can be present on a genuine coin due to die rust and die damage/break from worn dies, they will usually be irregular in shape instead of bubbly looking, which is what your coins exhibit.</p><p><br /></p><p>Authentic coins can also have indentations in them from corrosion, and is not a sign of forgery. Even silver coins can exhibit corrosion like that. However, such indentations on the coin surface will appear irregular in shape, and not look like little bubbles (which is what you get from bubbles on the mold during the casting process for a forgery). In yours the bubbling/indentations look too regular and is not consistent with what I would expect from a genuine coin that was naturally corroded.</p><p><br /></p><p>So all in all, 3 thrown balls produced 3 strikes, which means &quot;Your coins are out!&quot; Better luck getting better players...i mean coins... next time. I really got to stop with the baseball analogies on coin threads.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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