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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2551365, member: 24314&quot;]<span style="color: #ff0000"><b>Actually not.</b></span>&nbsp; Barry caught it.&nbsp; I started posting at the top of the thread where the coin photo was.&nbsp; I just thought it looked cast but then edited &quot;cast&quot; out as most fakes are struck these days.&nbsp; After posting my suspicion and moving down the thread, I saw that Barry had already posted that he was positive it was a cast fake.&nbsp; <span style="color: #0059b3">That made anything I had posted </span>moot and worthless.&nbsp; Barry is the expert and knew the answer - I&#039;m not.&nbsp; I&#039;m just a troll <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie93" alt=":troll:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> on the ancient forum.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie99" alt=":watching:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>PS&nbsp; The only way to determine how this fake was produced (cast or struck) would be its specific gravity (casts often contain trapped gas) and a microscopic examination of its fabric. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie12" alt="o_O" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> I mean surface. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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