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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numismat, post: 2157713, member: 15019&quot;]There have been some really good fakes of Victoria half rupees floating around</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I can&#039;t speak for US coins, but I know for a fact that they have managed to make laser etched die copies of certain world coins with virtually indistinguishable surface qualities. For example Meiji era Japanese yen. They got the technology so perfect on these that they are virtually unidentifiable without inspecting in hand. And even then the visual qualities can fool a trained eye. It&#039;s usually the edge or weight that gives it away, and in some cases metal composition analysis is required. Often the metal percentages are off or there are &quot;exotic&quot; metals that don&#039;t belong, as is the case with a bit of aluminum showing up in the XRF analysis of the OP coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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