What is wrong with this Ben half?

[ptdub]

Compared to a 66 silver half.

 

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[wvwildman]

i do't see anything wrong with it why cause its darker?
they will all look like that with age

 

[cudamark]

What do YOU think is wrong with it?

 

[ptdub]

What do YOU think is wrong with it?

I wouldn't be asking now if I knew would I....?

 

[stephan1970]

Great find congrats !

 

[mercury1]

Why do you think anything is wrong with it? Check the weight and sound test it. Does it like magnets?

 

[huntsman53]

It just toned darker than some other Silver coins and was probably due to the environment in the one or more places that it has been over the years. Also, comparing the Franklin Half color-wise which is 90% Silver to a 1966 Kennedy which is 40$% Silver, is really not a good choice!


Frank

 

[cudamark]

I wouldn't be asking now if I knew would I....?

What I meant is, what clue or feature about the coin brought a question to your mind that there might be something out of the ordinary?

 

[enamel7]

It's a normal half.

 

[sagittarius98]

The lettering looks a bit off to me, like it was cast (especially the "L").

 

[ptdub]

The lettering looks a bit off to me, like it was cast (especially the "L").

Thank you for being smarter than everyone else here with the dismissive responses. Could this be a fake?

 

[kaiser613]

im no expert but ive seen many cons like this, not always in silver, usually in quarters both silver and clad, ive always attributed it to a combination of die wear, poor strike, and post mint damage from environment

 

[mercury1]

Thank you for being smarter than everyone else here with the dismissive responses. Could this be a fake?

Sag is pretty smart, no doubt, but no one was trying to be anything but helpful and if you had followed my advice you would now know weather or not it was fake.

 

[enamel7]

Nice. Someone doesn't give you the answer you want and you say they aren't smart. Seems to me you're the one that came looking for answers. What does that make you?

 

[enamel7]

Also it doesn't make sense for it to be a fake. The year and condition doesn't coincide with a coin of extra value. Usually rarer coins are usually faked, not common ones.

 

[scott9050]

The questions has popped up here before:

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/coin-roll-hunting/226595-fake-ben.html

 

[sagittarius98]

Also it doesn't make sense for it to be a fake. The year and condition doesn't coincide with a coin of extra value. Usually rarer coins are usually faked, not common ones.

I have seen junk silver being counterfeited in China. I guess if they can make a profit, they will do it.

 

[Eminem]

im no expert but ive seen many cons like this, not always in silver, usually in quarters both silver and clad, ive always attributed it to a combination of die wear, poor strike, and post mint damage from environment

It was prob dipped in sulfuric acid and sugar, that stuff looks like poop.

 

[mercury1]

I have seen junk silver being counterfeited in China. I guess if they can make a profit, they will do it.

Don't put anything past the Chinese. But for a common coin like this, magnet and sound test should reveal if its fake.