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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 2355397, member: 59677&quot;]Are there contemporary counterfeits? Heck yeah - I own two. Actually often more valuable that the real thing.</p><p><br /></p><p>But not hard to tell... letters are off and especially with type 2s and 3s - the lines around the star are not perfectly straight.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s a civil war thing. When the war started first the silver coins were hoarded. Then ultimately to the lightweight trimes and even the copper coins were hoarded. People look real carefully at a dollar, half dollar or a quarter. Those were real money - a lot of purchasing power. But the trimes are tiny, might not have been seen for a couple years, and might have successfully passed in the hurly-burly of the market.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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