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<p>[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 3951427, member: 27832"]I'm going to go ahead and say that the Morgan set is <b>fake from start to finish</b>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Look at that granular surface on the 1885 close-up. Now look at the whole set, and see how <i>uniform</i> they are -- all the same look, all the same texture, all the same remarkably clean fields with weirdly-shaped luster.</p><p><br /></p><p>The last time I saw a Morgan with this look, it was a 1901 at the local pawn shop. I <i>might</i> have been taken in by the amazingly clean fields, despite the odd texture -- but then I flipped it over, saw that there was no mintmark, and realized that it would be a five-figure coin if it was legit.</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, and there were at least ten others just like it in the display.</p><p><br /></p><p>This book? Same deal. All the dates, all with the same texture, all in the same state of "preservation", even though that would make some of them $50 coins and some of them $500K coins. I'll bet you can buy the whole set as a single listing from our favorite overseas "trading partner". I wonder if they'll even throw in a fake Dansco.</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm not as familiar with fake Peace dollars, but given the company this set is keeping -- nah.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 3951427, member: 27832"]I'm going to go ahead and say that the Morgan set is [B]fake from start to finish[/B]. Look at that granular surface on the 1885 close-up. Now look at the whole set, and see how [I]uniform[/I] they are -- all the same look, all the same texture, all the same remarkably clean fields with weirdly-shaped luster. The last time I saw a Morgan with this look, it was a 1901 at the local pawn shop. I [I]might[/I] have been taken in by the amazingly clean fields, despite the odd texture -- but then I flipped it over, saw that there was no mintmark, and realized that it would be a five-figure coin if it was legit. Oh, and there were at least ten others just like it in the display. This book? Same deal. All the dates, all with the same texture, all in the same state of "preservation", even though that would make some of them $50 coins and some of them $500K coins. I'll bet you can buy the whole set as a single listing from our favorite overseas "trading partner". I wonder if they'll even throw in a fake Dansco. I'm not as familiar with fake Peace dollars, but given the company this set is keeping -- nah.[/QUOTE]
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