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Did you weigh it? The real 1812 Sliver Half Dollars are ~13.50 grams (Holed ones weigh less)

Hey J, if you have a coin shop in your area that you trust, and they have a sigma machine maybe they would test it for you

Looks alright to me but holed and damaged.

That poor thing was holed, cleaned, and possibly plugged above the current hole and redrilled. That's a lot of effort for a fake coin. I think it's real but has had a rough life.

Look here: http://www.shieldnickels.net/top20/reverseOf68.html Varieties of the 1868 hub are differentiated by letters which broke off the master hub in sequence as the hub was used. The sequence for breaking is C (CENTS) S (CENTS) S (first S in STATES) D (UNITED). On that page you will see the vari...

This isn't wear on the obverse . There are actually 6 Varieties for this year , I own 3 of them . You have a Variety 2 - two broken letters( the C and S in CENTS); FS-05-1868-902 . It and the others are listed in CONECA's CherryPicker's Guide to rare die varieties of US coins . A coin in this condit...

this is the 906 that they don't show on the website---notice how thin the 'c' is----