I HAVE AN 1893 $2.5 LIBERTY GOLD BULLION COIN. THE FACE IS WHAT I WOULD CALL MESSED UP AND THE REVERSE HAS SOME ISSUES TOO. WEIGHS 4.16 GRAMS, NORMAL IS 4.18 GRAMS, MEASURES 18 MM WHICH IS NORMAL. NEVER SEEN GOLD BULLION DO THIS. THOUGHTS ?
I would be wary on it's authenticity. LOTS of fakes were made. I have a Three dollar Gold Princess weight 5.0 grams. I am worried about.
You sure your scale is calibrated properly? 2/100th's of a gram could be in the scale, not necessarily the coin.
I have calibrated the scale again using the 50 g weight and the scale showed PASS. Re-weighed the bullion now shows 4.17. Scratching my head.
yeah it could be the scale but I have read that so many "fakes" were reproduced it just gives me a "bad vibe" every time I look at this coin. just a feeling, nothing concrete
breeze from your hand can honestly change the weight on the gram scales , movement of the table most anything may alter the weight until it settles again.
The rims look funky and the weird areas look like old paint that dried. Just what I observe in the pictures.
I guess spend the change, send it to NGC and either be told I have something unique. or break my heart with a fake.
It looks silver in your photos, not gold. If for some strange reason the hold coin was plated silver those cracks would be a plating issue.
Checking to see when the next coin show will be held in the area, maybe get a couple of people to look at it.
The odds are it's genuine, based on the dark, wrong lighting photos. (but we can't be certain, due to those not-so-good photos) It is NOT from a shattered or cracked die - that 'stuff' on the surface came to be on the coin (or into the coin's surface) after it was in circulation.
