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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2519413, member: 10461&quot;]If it&#039;s a fake, it&#039;s a pretty good one.&nbsp; Deceptive enough to fool me, anyway.&nbsp; Not your blatant Chinese counterfeit or &quot;tourist fake&quot; at any rate.&nbsp; Yes, probably cleaned, but no red flags immediately jump out at me to scream &quot;fake&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will defer to those with more specialized knowledge, however.&nbsp; There are trickier fakes out there, which is why Trade dollars, like Indian gold, are coins I typically would prefer to buy in reputable TPG plastic, or at least have an expert look at &#039;em first.&nbsp; (Obviously, I am no expert in this series.&nbsp; I&#039;ve owned a few pieces, that&#039;s all.)</p><p><br /></p><p>PS- as to the weight discrepancy, I&#039;d remove it from the holder and try it out on more than one scale, first.&nbsp; I have a little gram scale and a postal scale, and they don&#039;t always agree.&nbsp; Both were fairly cheap and are &quot;not legal for trade&quot;.&nbsp; That alone could explain it, maybe.</p><p><br /></p><p>PPS- though that toning is <i>secondary</i> toning that resulted after an old cleaning, it is not totally displeasing to my eye.&nbsp; I mean, it&#039;s not <i>fantastic</i>, but not bad.&nbsp; It looks better than a stripped, all-white coin would look to me.&nbsp; And I&#039;d say the toning is pretty old.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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