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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KBBPLL, post: 26068007, member: 104064&quot;]I can tell you that it appears to have the correct obverse and reverse hub types for 1892-1899. The N is touching the ribbon and the inner ear is empty on the obverse; the vein in the left-most leaf on the reverse is correct. So it is unlikely to be counterfeit (most I&#039;ve seen have the wrong reverse type). </p><p><br /></p><p>I haven&#039;t studied 1895-O so I don&#039;t know if there&#039;s something definitive to see here. Just poking thru PCGS images, the mint mark position and counter-clockwise rotation seems to match the most common reverse die. But that doesn&#039;t help much, because 1897-O has a similar location and rotation. </p><p><br /></p><p>There is a date position for 1895-O where the 5 touches the bust, so that aspect is a possible match. But we don&#039;t have much to go on - we can&#039;t see the designer initial or denticles to line anything up with, and the metal in the last digit is badly distorted. So is it a 5 or a 7, or? I can&#039;t say for sure one way or the other. The top left of the last digit does appear to be squared off, so there&#039;s that. </p><p><br /></p><p>PCGS authenticated this one, so maybe there&#039;s hope. It would probably be the most horrid example known. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1659856[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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