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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;IdesOfMarch01, post: 2880173, member: 39084&quot;]To my eye, there are so many things that look fake about this coin that I can&#039;t even begin to enumerate them.</p><p><br /></p><p>I, too, was unable to find a similar coin this heavy in the 43 examples that popped up in an ACSEARCH; the heaviest one I found was 4.00g.</p><p><br /></p><p>The surface on both the obverse and reverse appears to have mainly two levels of relief that have been smoothed and flattened; this doesn&#039;t remotely resemble normal wear due to circulation among the coins I saw on ACSEARCH.&nbsp; The smoothing would get rid of any casting bubbles that may have been present.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your third picture (the first one illustrating an edge) appears to show a casting seam.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d be stunned if this coin weren&#039;t a forgery.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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