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**Catieliecutty** · 05-16-2012, 06:42 AM

I know a guy who runs a jewelry store. He's not real familiar with 90% silver so he had me come in to look at some Morgan Dollars and some other coins a customer had dropped off. All the coins were fake. There were 108 Morgan Dollars--all of them 1885 cc, which is worth a lot of money, and 1887 cc, which doesn't even exist. I weighed some of the Morgan Dollars and one was about 20 grams, one was around 17 grams, one was around 18 grams, and the rest of the ones I weighed were about 19.5 grams-19.9 grams. There were also 2 Peace Dollars that were just under 20 grams. There were also 3 1804 Liberty Dollars, which are extremely rare, and one from 1797. Those were around 22 grams.

I took some of the Morgan Dollars and the Liberty Dollars to a coin store near where I live so they could look at them. They pointed out some other things about them--like the rim on some of the Morgans was uneven-it was wider at some points. They also used a magnet on them and all the coins stuck to the magnet. They also compared them to a counterfeit Morgan they keep in the store (That one doesn't stick to a magnet, but it's real light).

05-16-2012, 06:42 AM	#1
Catieliecutty Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 507 Senior Member	Identified some fake Morgans and other coins at a jewelry store I know a guy who runs a jewelry store. He's not real familiar with 90% silver so he had me come in to look at some Morgan Dollars and some other coins a customer had dropped off. All the coins were fake. There were 108 Morgan Dollars--all of them 1885 cc, which is worth a lot of money, and 1887 cc, which doesn't even exist. I weighed some of the Morgan Dollars and one was about 20 grams, one was around 17 grams, one was around 18 grams, and the rest of the ones I weighed were about 19.5 grams-19.9 grams. There were also 2 Peace Dollars that were just under 20 grams. There were also 3 1804 Liberty Dollars, which are extremely rare, and one from 1797. Those were around 22 grams. I took some of the Morgan Dollars and the Liberty Dollars to a coin store near where I live so they could look at them. They pointed out some other things about them--like the rim on some of the Morgans was uneven-it was wider at some points. They also used a magnet on them and all the coins stuck to the magnet. They also compared them to a counterfeit Morgan they keep in the store (That one doesn't stick to a magnet, but it's real light).
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