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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsimonel, post: 3530021, member: 82549&quot;]As I said, this is not my coin, and I have no stake in whether it is real or fake. In fact, I was in the process of writing the owner to tell him that the consensus was that the coin is fake, when, whiles explaining the reason given, I realized that I still have a couple of questions.</p><p><br /></p><p>Summary: Silver is good (s.g. 10.19). Looks like a cast copy, but image is so poor (a scan from FedX!), this probably can&#039;t be confirmed without a better image. Fake patina? Perhaps, but could this be a thick, black patina that was harshly abraded from the high points? The coin is clearly underweight, but I&#039;m going with the hypothesis that the coin has been severely clipped. There is no evidence of a casting seam or file marks, but you wouldn&#039;t expect them if the coin has been clipped after casting.</p><p><br /></p><p>Still, it&#039;s hard to argue with the apparent stylistic difference; the coin definitely looks &quot;off.&quot; Unless this difference is an illusion caused by the remove of the field around the obverse portrait. So I popped a photo of this legitimate coin - <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2267452-" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2267452-" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2267452-</a> into Photoshop</p><p>and &quot;clipped&quot; it electronically. Here are the quick-and-dirty results along with the original photo right below them:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]937944[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]937947[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]937948[/ATTACH]&nbsp; </p><p>And this is where I&#039;m totally out of my league. Does the style still look off? I don&#039;t want to condemn this coin if there&#039;s a chance that it&#039;s just clipped. Thanks for your opinions.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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