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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 3009950, member: 66&quot;]The fake 1872 S half-dollar has also been seen in NGC slabs. And it is truly an impossible die pairing. This counterfeit was discussed extensively in the first issue of the Gobrecht Journal last year. In that article they traced the obverse and reverse dies to the particular varieties that were used to create the fake dies. The obverse die on the counterfeit is in an earlier die state than the genuine 1872 P half-dollar that was used for the model. The reverse die is from a late die stage of the 1875 S half-dollar. So on the counterfeit you supposedly have a die pair with the obverse used early in 1872 and the reverse used late in 1875. If the counterfeit was real the 1872 obverse die would have had to have been sitting in San Francisco for three years, used in late 1875 to make this coin, then shipped to Philadelphia and used to strike 1872 half dollars in 1875.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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