Underwood's Counterfeit Reporter

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Excerpt from Underwood's Counterfeit Reporter: November, 1883The most common are sweating, filing the edge, or reeding, plugging, and filling.Sweating is done in a variety of ways, all removing portions of the coins from all parts equally and reducing the value about 1-20. Filing the edge, or reeding, leaves the ridges quite sharp and sub tracts as high as one - tenth the value. In all these cases the appearance, ring, etc., are very good, the weight only being defective.In plugged coins (double eagles only having been found subjected to this process), holes are bored into the coin from the reeding and the cavities filled with base metal, only the orifice being covered with gold and the reeding then touched up with a file. He loss in these coins is from one-eighth to one-sixth.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.