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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;davidh, post: 407693, member: 15062&quot;]As I said, I find it hard to believe anyone would have made a counterfeit of this coin/date, so I assume it is genuine, as do you all.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, the things that made me wonder are things that the counterfeit experts tell you to look out for.</p><p><br /></p><p>What made me think about it at first, was the lack of an upper serif on the D in UNITED.&nbsp; I have since found that is not an error.</p><p><br /></p><p>But then, looking over the coin more closely, I found things that made me wonder.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The overall granularity of the devices and lettering, which you explain as cleaned corrosion, but which is not present in the field.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There are several bumps or bubbles in the field - between the top two leaves of the left wreath on the reverse, in the ribbon top above the D in GOD on the obverse, another one just to the right and above of that one, one in the field just to the right of the left feathers on the obverse, one in the shield at the top between the first and second sets of vertical bands, apparent bubbles in the dentils at about the 2:30 to 3:30 position on the obverse.&nbsp; At the top of the horizontal banding on the shield, the lines appear to extend into the scrollwork to the left and the bands are uneven just below the left and right scrolls.</p><p><br /></p><p>These things may all be design elements I don&#039;t know anything about or dust or other photographic artifacts or they might be the result of damage to the coin after minting or to the die before minting.&nbsp; But this brings up the question I would have - when a photograph of a coin is submitted here for evaluation, what do you specifically look for to make your determination.&nbsp; Many of the photos are far smaller and less clear than these I showed yet a positive determination is made that the coin is either real or fake.&nbsp; The pictures here are about 9x magnifications.</p><p><br /></p><p>Is there a book or internet reference that has full page photographs of &quot;prefect&quot; coins for comparison?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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