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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 2957207, member: 112"]So have I, probably a whole lot more of them than you have seeing as how I started doing it in the 1960's. And yeah they went through the coins in almost every case. BUT - that was with modern ammo. My sole point is this, old ammo, had one heck of lot less power than modern ammo. And it was extremely common for old ammo, even with what was considered to be a high powered rifle at the time -  not to penetrate a coin. The bullets were different back then, the powder was extremely different (as in far less powerful), and the guns themselves were different. Think of the case of Lt. George Dixon whose life was saved when he was shot and the bullet only put a dent the coin, a $20 double eagle, and it was not much of a dent ! That coin still exist today. That took place in the Civil War, and yes, by 1900 bullets and guns were different by 1900. But they still didn't have much more power or penetration that they did in the Civil War. In many cases, many bullets around 1900 were still black powder loads. But even smokeless powder back then was a completely different animal than it is today - with but a fraction of the power of modern ammo. Is it possible that was a fake ? Yes. But it is also possible, and even far more likely, that it was completely genuine.[/QUOTE]