How can I check a coin's authenticity?
My grandmother gave me an 1878 Goloid Metric silver dollar, but I want to make sure it’s not a counterfeit. What is the best way to make sure it’s real?
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If you live in a large city see the biggest coin, dealer for he may know what you have. See if he deals in items like large cents that have varieties listed or has say territorial gold, also patterns. If he is a run of the mill dealer he will know nothing about what you have. The cheapest way and one that you can do yourself without a middleman is to send it to ANACS, they are a grading and authentication service. You can go to their web site for details http://www.anacs.com. You can also call them, there number is on the site. It is not a common coin so I unfortunately do not have any books on the subject. What you have needs to be seen by experts in that field, most coin dealers have no idea that it even exists,
go to coin dealer or look it up in coin reference book at library.
This is not something you’re going to be able to get out of the average coin book. Not all dealers will be expert in this issue, either. Most of them know their US coins pretty well, but this wasn’t an official issue. It’s a pattern, they’re very scarce, and it’ll require an expert in US pattern types to look at it for you. Try a local shop, and see what they say. If they can’t tell you what Judd or Pollock number it is, they’re not an expert, and you’ll need to try another dealer.
In the end, you may have to spend the money on professional certification. The trouble with these coins is that they were struck in a variety of metals, leaving the door wide open to counterfeiters. The US government eventually rejected the idea because the coins couldn’t be told apart from the 90% silver coins without chemical analysis, and they knew that counterfeiting would be a problem