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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 159945, member: 112&quot;]Richie - </p><p><br /></p><p>Everything that Zane has said already are my reasons - wrong color, and the color goes all the way thru as you can see by the corrosion where it has eaten into the coin - very rough surface, pimples, depressions, mushy details - all of this screams counterfeit.</p><p><br /></p><p>And your question about why somebody would fake a common coin is probably one of the most often asked questions there is in the hobby of numismatics. The answer is so obvious nobody ever sees it - because that&#039;s the easiest one to get away with on - nobody ever suspects a common coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>Every single coin, no matter how common, has been faked &amp; counterfeited by somebody at some time. It may be a contemporary fake, a modern fake, it may even be a fake that is 50 or 75 years old. But I&#039;d bet a lot that that coin is a fake.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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