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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;IslandCoins, post: 39357, member: 2434&quot;]Im new at collecting coins, so please bare with me if my question is &quot;amateurish&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>My question is, are &quot;restrikes&quot; exactly the same as the original coins, or do they have a hidden symbol or way to find out that they are in fact &quot;restrikes&quot; and not authentic coins? </p><p><br /></p><p>I ask because I would imagine somebody could take a recent &quot;restrike&quot; of an old coin and artificially make it look older than it is and pass it off as an &quot;original&quot;. As I am starting to collect coins, that has me uneasy since it makes me doubt the authenticity of some coins that have been &quot;restriked&quot; as much as a century after the original coin was minted.</p><p><br /></p><p>Other than the fact that restrikes look newer, are there any other ways to tell the difference?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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