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<p>[QUOTE="Treashunt, post: 738885, member: 6763"]okay, lets try to make more sense out of this thread:</p><p><br /></p><p>"It looks fake to me." I have seen coins like this. There may not be anything glaring, like an obvious added mintmark, or the wrong design for the date (see Chinese fakes in amny other threads). </p><p>But, having looked at many other coins of the type the piece may just look 'off' and not natural. An example may be a dished look to the coin, like the 1900 O (as I remember) Barber dime, which looks slightly different from most other dates. It just looks off to me, but I will never be able to explain why, just it is real. It almost looks like a different master die was used.</p><p><br /></p><p>Color: See this link:</p><p><a href="http://www.cointalk.com/t78979/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/t78979/">http://www.cointalk.com/t78979/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That (to me) is an obvious artificial toning. The colors are not natural, and are too sharp. Could it be natural? Sure, and the man in the moon may be real. Yes, there are dark natural toning coins, but this is not one of them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Treashunt, post: 738885, member: 6763"]okay, lets try to make more sense out of this thread: "It looks fake to me." I have seen coins like this. There may not be anything glaring, like an obvious added mintmark, or the wrong design for the date (see Chinese fakes in amny other threads). But, having looked at many other coins of the type the piece may just look 'off' and not natural. An example may be a dished look to the coin, like the 1900 O (as I remember) Barber dime, which looks slightly different from most other dates. It just looks off to me, but I will never be able to explain why, just it is real. It almost looks like a different master die was used. Color: See this link: [url]http://www.cointalk.com/t78979/[/url] That (to me) is an obvious artificial toning. The colors are not natural, and are too sharp. Could it be natural? Sure, and the man in the moon may be real. Yes, there are dark natural toning coins, but this is not one of them.[/QUOTE]
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