Potential Fake R. of China "Fat Man" 10 cents/1 Jiao Y#326 Photo [solved]

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This message aims at: requesting the modification of a coin in the catalogue

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Ws recently looking at bidding on this coin type and when I started researching on Numista the photo on the reference page for this coin type for 1914 to 1916 seemed off to me. 

 

N#21486

 

When comparing to photos of certified examples the lettering, especially on the reverse, just doesn't seem to line up. It is too large and too close to rim, also there are slight differences with some of the charactors. 

 

Numista ex :

 

PCGS ex :

 

Numista ex (Obv) :

PCGS ex (Obv) :

 

Not sure if there is some variant I'm unaware of, but my initial look with my barely trained eye told me to stay away from the Numista photo if I was looking at buying it.

 

Shamrock

Status changed to Started (Jarcek, 20 Aug 2023, 13:41)

Sent a question to the user who uploaded it.

Catalogue administrator

Thank you for highlighting that my coin is probably fake. I replaced the picture with a picture of a coin sold by Heritage Auctions and authenticated by PCGS.

Status changed to Done (Xavier, 20 Aug 2023, 13:59)

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