Just Bob

On 9/30/2022 at 7:43 PM, DWLange said:

No. I arrived in California Tuesday for a scheduled vacation. A friend who lives nearby checked on my house afterward, and it seems to be fine. Thanks for inquiring.

Glad to hear that you and yours are safe, and that your house did not sustain any damage.

That one deserves a star, for sure.

Nice pictures.  Not a doubled die, though, as far as I can tell.

Just beat up badly. Not an error coin. 

On 9/24/2022 at 10:57 PM, Quintus Arrius said:

This is a pleasant surprise!  I had you typecast as the face of tokens. I like your trademark, Welcome to the forum.

At one time, I was assembling a set of mint state and proof Roosevelt's.  I also picked up some varieties and errors along the way.

The most common tells are a granular, sometimes pitted, surface, and evidence of a casting sprue around the rim. Beyond that, I recommend you look at pictures on this site and others to get a feel for how a genuine example should look. Many of us on here shy away from giving too much detail on how to determine if a coin is a counterfeit. We believe that counterfeiters frequent chat boards to get clues about how to be improve their craft.

On 9/21/2022 at 7:28 PM, VKurtB said:

... the spot where the verdigris was usually remains a noticeable dark spot. Better than green. 

On 9/21/2022 at 1:35 PM, GBrad said:

Hello Just Bob.  You are not the only one that has happened to my friend. I have had that happen more times than I can remember.  Sometimes if I go off the post, and then come back, the "editor" program will have saved it when I click on the reply button again, but not always.  Other than that, I have started copying longer comments prior to hitting the submit button so I don't lose what I've typed.  Definitely a glitch in the system though. 

Thanks. I'm glad to know that it wasn't something that I was doing wrong.

Copying the post before I submit makes sense, though. I will try to remember to do that. Thanks for the idea.

I had a three paragraph reply typed out, but when I hit "submit" it disappeared. So, rather than go to all the trouble of retyping it, I will just say "welcome to the forum" and "I think you have a great username."

Judging by your username I assume you were in Vietnam in '68 and '69. Please allow me to take this opportunity to say, "Welcome home," just in case no one told you that when you got off the ship or plane that brought you back to the States.

Do you mind if I ask which tpg certified the two circulated dollars, and what the grades were?

On 9/16/2022 at 2:18 PM, zadok said:

...physical....i dont trust electronically....

So the only additional cost would be shipping?

On 9/16/2022 at 10:55 AM, zadok said:

...yep in fact i just purchased a sizable quantity myself, never know when u mite need some...europe beckons....

Excuse my ignorance, but I have no idea how this works. Do you take physical possession of the currency, or is it done electronically?

"Re-worked 3" may be a more accurate description. The center of the digit appears to have been strengthened, and the entire digit is misshapen.

Maybe I am just too cynical, but this thread seems like one of those we get every now and then in which the person has some coins that he knows are fake, but thinks he might try to con someone into buying them. So, he goes to a coin chat board, hoping to find some greedy soul who wants to take advantage of a newbie who has a rare coin. He posts some hard to see pictures, makes up some emotion-based story about a deceased relative (or in this case, a wedding), and feigns total ignorance about what he has or how much it is worth. Then he hints, or states outright, that he would be interested in selling them, hoping that someone will think that they can make a quick score at his expense. What these goobers don't seem to realize is that the members of this board actually know a little something about coins. When they point out that the coins are actually fake, the poster beats a hasty retreat, never to return. This particular poster has not logged back in since right after the two responses above were posted. That tells me that he did not get the response he was hoping for, and decided he had better try somewhere else. I have seen this many times on this chat board, and will likely see it many more.

My two cents.

Much nicer close-up pictures than the majority of what we see here. Well done!

The overall mushiness of the design, the appearance of the coin in general, and the difference in weight put me in the "replica/fake" camp. Just my non-expert opinion. I think that, if the coin were mine, I would try to find a local dealer who knows these coins, or look for a larger coin show nearby, and have several dealers take a look. 

O-108 is obverse die 7 paired with reverse die B. O-106 is obverse die 5 with reverse die F. So, no, they are not the same die.

I believe the 1823 shown above is O-108a.

There are replicas known that are listed on Numista.

Here is a link to one:  https://en.numista.com/catalogue/exonumia55222.html

Sign of the times, My Brother.

But, you are right. Spelling a coin's name properly should not be negotiable.