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New Member
France
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Hi all. I picked up this coin yesterday at a car boot sale with two other coins from a private seller, FRIDD GREX BORUSS EL BR 1707, I would like some opinions if possible is it Real or a fake. It weights 20 grams and is 39mm in diameter Thanks for any help BretonTyke   |
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Australia
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New Member
 France
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Thanks for the reply turtleoverhead, I saw that site and also others with replica's for sale, the replica's I've seen all have a 38mm diameter and around 18 grams the coin I have is 39mm and 20 grams that's why I had doubts.
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New Member
France
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I have just noticed if you save and magnify the tales side on the link http://www.ioffer.com/i/140291505 you posted, look just above the "C-S-" the word copy is moulded into the coin, mine hasn't got the "copy" stamp on it. Does anyone else have an opinion please. |
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United States
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The one thing that jumps out at me on your coin is how perfectly round your coin is... I have a few coins of that era from different Countries and not one coin is perfectly round... I now wished I had taken some edge photos to highlight this prior to having them certified, as the holder hides the edge details...  |
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France
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I see what you mean broken-coin, I have looked closely at photos of what I believe are genuine on the net, there seems to be more detail on my coin than them, I'm not 100% convinced it's genuine as there are so many good copies around.
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United Kingdom
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Yes we are seeing lots at the UK carboots got offered 4 Morgan dollars yesterday |
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New Member
France
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I got it here in France with a sierra leone "1 leone" 10th anniversary 1964-1974 and a Hungarian 1938 5 pengo. We don't really have many fakes doing the rounds here,but they are about
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Valued Member
Australia
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yes, agree with all above, extremely low quality repro..
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France
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Thanks a lot everyone for your advice
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United States
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Sorry to jump in late. The coin is without a shade of a doubt a counterfeit - modern and of very little value. I picked one up for about a dollar along with 100 others up in Boston at a coin show. Yours looks like a twin of mine. Mine is not silver but it has a fair ring. If you can perform a specific gravity test you should get about 9 to 9.1. They are a copper nickel alloy.
The lettering on the reverse is TOO thick and the edges are not shart. Mine when viewed under a microscope shows a surface roughness with NO flow lines. All of the transitions between field and devices are not sharp.
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