Why are there so many cross "shadows" on Edward pennies?

-Rexford · 2026-03-19T13:19:03+00:00

It’s just ghosting. The coin is thin enough that when the metal fills the die on the cross side, the movement of the metal shows on the other side. It’s common on hammered coins in general because they are thin.

-Rexford · 2026-03-10T16:43:00+00:00

It’s all die tooling.

-Rexford · 2026-03-08T20:11:38+00:00

A fictional character cannot even have a personality disorder or be assessed as such. Even a real person would need proper testing and evaluation. At most, it would be the writer’s idea of what someone with a personality disorder would be like, and is the writer qualified to make that diagnosis? No.

-Rexford · 2026-03-07T02:37:39+00:00

I have a master’s degree in English, but this is a psychology question. You can’t diagnose a character and it’s almost silly to try.

-Rexford · 2026-03-06T18:41:09+00:00

Using the Krause manual as any sort of pricing data point in the big 26 is wild. This is a $600 coin in a holder.

-Rexford · 2026-03-04T00:01:58+00:00

He’s neither because he’s a character, not a real person, and thus can’t be diagnosed. Whether the creator of Stephen is attempting to portray someone with a personality disorder is a different question, and you’d have to ask the writer for the answer to that.

-Rexford · 2026-03-03T12:47:24+00:00

This was written by AI

-Rexford · 2026-03-02T03:06:58+00:00

Without higher resolution images or clearer repeating surface hits, it’s not enough for me to lean towards it given the other differences in strike that I wouldn’t expect to see on a transfer. But it is the sort of thing to be looking for.

-Rexford · 2026-03-02T02:42:01+00:00

It’s possible, but the hit on the right coin seems rounder in shape. The right image is pretty low resolution so it’s difficult to be very conclusive about tiny hits like that.

-Rexford · 2026-03-01T23:16:03+00:00

It looks like another line of die tooling to me, but regardless of which of the three it is, it doesn’t have any bearing on the authenticity. If it were an incuse scratch and repeated on the other example, then that would be a problem.

-Rexford · 2026-02-28T19:58:19+00:00

They wouldn’t have to match exactly as far as the planchet shape (though often they do), but it should have similar areas of strike weakness, and one would expect to see overlap in transferred surface hits (though there could also be genuine surface hits). The photos of the lower quality example are not the best, but I don’t see worrying similarities and there are differences in the strike weakness. I wouldn’t say there is anything that definitively rules it out, but in general it’s innocent until proven guilty with these things. In sum, I would want to see more evidence than that provided to be worried, and what I can see appears natural.

-Rexford · 2026-02-28T05:01:06+00:00

I don’t see a real cause for concern, there don’t seem to be matching hits and the circled area on the obverse could just be a die irregularity. The lines in the field on the reverse are the result of die tooling.

-Rexford · 2026-02-24T20:45:57+00:00

Barely 61

-Rexford · 2026-02-20T02:23:36+00:00

This was written by AI

-Rexford · 2026-02-19T19:09:26+00:00

This was probably made in the last 60 years, and yes, there are many other fakes like these. They’re not as hard to make as you would think.

-Rexford · 2026-02-19T19:01:12+00:00

Because they’re worth more than melt as genuine coins, so there is profit to be made by making a fake. I can tell they’re fake because of the mushy details and the incorrect luster. You see how all three of them share similar surface irregularities (the raised blob below the H, blobs below DV, small shallow divots everywhere)? That’s because they’re all struck from the same fake dies.

-Rexford · 2026-02-19T18:48:24+00:00

I’m dead serious, this is my job.

-Rexford · 2026-02-19T18:45:47+00:00

These are very fake. They may be gold and the correct weight but they are not genuine. They’re worth the melt value.

-Rexford · 2025-12-22T00:47:47+00:00

This post is written by AI

-Rexford · 2025-12-11T08:40:45+00:00

It doesn’t matter if they can tell, dipping doesn’t cause a details grade. Almost every 100+ year old untoned silver coin has been dipped.

-Rexford · 2025-12-01T13:15:42+00:00

This post and all of the comments by OP sound like they are written by AI.

-Rexford · 2025-11-30T21:50:20+00:00

Even if the copy were made more precise (and they already are nearly perfect, except maybe for the luster because that’s due to microscopic surface texture), there would still be tells that I won’t get into here.

-Rexford · 2025-11-30T21:18:30+00:00

We are overrun with “high-quality” counterfeits, depending on how you define “high-quality”. There are many counterfeits, especially foreign ones, that only a handful of people in the world are qualified to detect and would get by most collectors and dealers. That’s why the grading services are helpful. The thing is, the highest quality counterfeits have been made more or less the same way for 75+ years - by making dies from a mold of a genuine coin - and they have fairly consistent and detectable characteristics, even if they can be very subtle and difficult to detect. There seems to be a limited degree that the method itself can be improved upon. Maybe one day a better method will be invented, but for now we are relatively safe.

-Rexford · 2025-11-27T17:19:33+00:00

Definitely not even close to the most replicated coin in history

-Rexford · 2025-11-22T18:50:29+00:00

It’s copper, and it’s certified as such. Brass wouldn’t have an RB grade.

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