Hello,
I am incredibly new to this and I'm learning. Inheritance has thrown me into this, and I imagine that's a common story.
This 1924 Double Eagle has bugged me a bit since I started looking at the collection. Hopefully, I'm just a newbie and overthinking things. Learning early on that Double Eagles are a highly counterfeited coin, it made me be extra dilligent.
While I know that no one can definatively tell me yes or no to the authenticity here with crappy pictures and no coin in hand, a lot of counterfeits seem to jump out at people. So, I'm going to take a shot and see what comes up.
Diameter with a digial caliper is around 34.25mm, and it's coming in at 34g (scale precision isn't out to the tenth). There seems to be signifiant wear on the right side of the coin, causing the 4 to look fat, and the stars to appear worn and lacking detail. Additionally, the edge does contain the “E PLURIBUS UNUM” text, but there's an oddity (to me) in the raised seam before the U, and the vertical indent at the N. Overall the edge looks all beat up.
Pictures attached, and I hope that the above is good detail and the right things to look at so far. I'm learning, and sometimes I can get a bit too analytical.
Thank you for your time, and for taking the time to teach me.
In case the inline photos are not high enough detail, the originals can be found here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1uG54KCYSb8JI2EfwW__ILJc9jG2qC08h?usp=sharing