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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Eduard, post: 291501, member: 8959&quot;]<b>1797 Cent i bought - a fake.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Hello All,</p><p>I thought it would be interesting for some to know how deceptive some countefeit coins can be, and how easy it is to make an expensive mistake:&nbsp; it turned out that the 1797 cent i bought a few weeks ago (pictures at the top of this post), and which looked so &quot; real&quot;&nbsp; and appealing in the flip, was in fact a fake. </p><p>I noticed something was funny when i removed it from the 2x2 flip.&nbsp; The edges looked abnormally sharp, and squared off. </p><p>Cents from this period have generally more rounded, bevelled edges.</p><p>So i weighed it. Sure enough, it was significantly underweigth at 10.24 grams. This is 5+ % below the norm of 10.89 grams.</p><p>I then compared the weights with the rest of my cents from the 1794-1800 period. All of them were within 1.5 % of the nominal weight.&nbsp; Upon further research i learnt that some very deceptive counterfeits known as the &quot;Bay Area Cent Counterfeits&quot; show exactly these characteristics.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp; </p><p>I was very lucky that the seller took the coin back, with no issues. He was as surprised as i was.&nbsp; This reinforces once again my belief - Buy only from knowledgeable, trusted sources. I thought this one was too good to be true, and in fact, it was. </p><p>Regards,</p><p>Eduard[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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