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Message:: [QUOTE="SuperDave, post: 2701949, member: 1892"]It's not as if the die pairings of this issue are unknown. There are six varieties known. This is not one of them. Only one of the four obverse dies had a date which didn't touch the curl and the date on this coin is too far from, and too high relative to, the curl for that obverse. It's also too wide. Further, the two top curls of hair on the "correct" coin are directly below the E and R, not the B and E as shown on this coin. That obverse was paired with two reverses. Given the appearance of the two leaves under the first T in STATES, the coin shown here could only be the Small Letters variety, B-3/BB-62. Only two B-3's are known, for the record. Here's one of the two, from PCGS CoinFacts: [ATTACH=full]608328[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]608329[/ATTACH] The reverse is actually not a terrible copy of the true Small Letters Reverse B, which as a matter of record was used in the issues of 4 different years of production (which is why the counterfeiters probably had access to one): 1795, 1796 (three varieties this year), 1797 and 1798. It has the typical problems of appearance which indicate it as immediately fake to the educated eye - denticle structure, letter serifs, too much/too little relief in inappropriate places - but the gross feature locations are pretty accurate. It's a counterfeit, beyond any doubt.[/QUOTE]