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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 7679798, member: 105098&quot;]they are measured in millimeters. 18 millimeters = 0.708661 which is what it should be and the measure is rounded down. My guess is the scale isn&#039;t accurate either and it&#039;s rounded up to 4.2g instead of 4.18g.</p><p><br /></p><p>if they asked if it was real,&nbsp; tell them so far it seems ok, go have it tested at a coin shop or a we buy gold place and find out if they would buy it. If they would buy it after checking it out, it&#039;s likely legit.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can&#039;t blow these pictures up to look for tool marks, I can&#039;t even tell if the smudge to the left of the arrow points is a really worn mintmark or just a smudge.</p><p><br /></p><p>these coins are difficult, everything is incused, the mintmark isn&#039;t, so it&#039;s the first to go in my opinion before the wear hits the design itself and the wear happens on the fields most of the time except for thumb and finger rub in the design.&nbsp; Id say it&#039;s EF range if it&#039;s real. the wear does hit the feathers of the headdress some, if that&#039;s wear and not part of counterfeitting. </p><p><br /></p><p>Look the 1909 $2.50&nbsp; is NGC&#039;s #14th most popular counterfeited coin, it gets beat out by the 1893 S morgan, and the usual lincoln cent suspects, and the 1916 D dime, and some more commonly seen gold fakes as far as gold goes it&#039;s #9. but it&#039;s in the top 50 and every one should be treated as suspected to be counterfeit until proven otherwise, to be safe.</p><p><br /></p><p>I see no reason to doubt it&#039;s genuine from the pictures, however I still wouldn&#039;t buy it off a person on the internet that has some secret compartment story, just to be on the safe side. long &quot;finder&quot;&nbsp; stories usually equal scams of some sort, especially on the internet. it&#039;s one of those &quot;have to see it in person, and have to really know the coin series&quot; ones to get right. either that or it&#039;s already slabbed and proven to be genuine and graded, then as long as the number checks out, I see no problem buying one of those. honestly I have trouble telling VF from EF on these and don&#039;t even trust myself to get it right.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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