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Try sticking a magnet to it, silver is not magnetic and I'm betting this coin is made of some sort of base metal.

Well apparently, it is magnetic. So I'm giving to understand that it is definitely not a genuine 1804 Silver Dollar. Another question here, As silly as this may sound, is there any possibility that the coin is still a real coin but just a regular old coin. Perhaps one that happen to be minted in the year 1804? I'm trying to figure out that is there any possibility that the story being told to my friend is a true story, because he has dozens of US coins and to this date he believed that all of them are real US coins.

Thanks everyone for kind reply.

Did you weigh it and measure it

The coin weighs 27.50 grams and measures 45 mm in diameter and is 2.5 mm thick.

So assuming that the coin is a replica of a genuine example (I'm not quiet convinced yet ), does that means the story I just told about that coin is nothing but a joke?

Hi every body!

A friend of mine, who is an amateur coin collector, have a small collection of US coins. Recently when he was showing me his coins, I saw this Liberty coin, and as a person who don't have any knowledge on coins, found it quiet big and heavy and wondered why there is no sign of value on it Then the geeky person inside me encouraged me to search Wikipedia to find out whether there is any article about it. After which I found this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1804_silver_dollar. Which says it is a US coin of one dollar value, worth of millions of dollars today.

I showed that article to my friend, and he said that he was told that the coin is extremely valuable by a coin expert, who also asked him to sell it to him for a hundred thousand dollars. I asked him about the story behind that coin, and he told me that his entire US coins were a gift from an old Armenian lady in his neighbourhood who claimed that it is a heritage of his father's father who was a christen priest of Iranian origin living in Western Iran, he decided to move to US about 150 years ago and came back to Iran after years of struggle finding happiness in America.

We know that there is many fake 1804 Silver Dollars around, but, the story behind this coin suggests that it may be a genuine one. I asked my friend to take pictures of it so that we could find out the true value of this coin. So here it is:

I also uploaded big versions of pictures at http://alvandi.org/foo/liberty-1a.jpg and http://alvandi.org/foo/liberty-1b.jpg