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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 700721, member: 112&quot;]Matt - the 1854 looks to be another cast fake, raised pimples all over the place.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the &#039;58 - there are a very few raised pimples on the coin, but no more than would be consistent with a coin struck by a rusty die, which was common at the time. The coin has obviously been very harshly cleaned and then attacked, for lack of a better word, with some sharp object on the obv. No way those are planchet issues, you can plainly see the displaced metal.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now could that have been done to mark up a fake ? You bet, and it often was and is done. But it could also have been done by some poor slob sitting at bar drowning his sorrows because he was PO&#039;s at his wife, his boss - somebody !</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, I can&#039;t see anything that would lead me to think it was fake - just beat to death.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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