Dear r3globe,
On the beginning when I saw this your new YSK dollar 1914 I thought it is genuine one. But after close examination I must say it is FAKE coin. Yes, there are many details like more visible hair and part with stars, but this is not genuine piece and I will give my head for it. The hair are one of the crucial point which betrays this coin. I haven't seen such of second YSK dollar 1914 with so clear hair. The hair are clear on other common YSK dollars 1914 but not so clear. Let's take a look on close photo one of my YSK 1914 with mint mark "O" it has similar design like the hair on your fatman dollar 1914. But your is not "O" variety, just common. Besides, on my YSK 1914 ear is double and shape of stars part is different than on yours YSK 1914. So your coin can't be the same one with the coin on picture 1a. I also compared your YSK 1914 with one of my YSK 1914 which I have. The hair are similar, but not the same. However the part with stars on your YSK 1914 is not the same as the stars part on my YSK 1914. So my coin (picture 2a) is not the same with your coin. Now my coin from picture 3a. The hair are the same (nearly the same I must say once again) but stars part doesn't match with your coin. Also on reverse of my coins (picture 3b) there is no "O" mint mark. On your coin I also don't see it but I also don't see clear on leaf which getting out of one grain on the right side. So your coins is
not 3a-3b coin. 4a it is obverse of my YSK 1920, hair are clear, stars part is clear but not the same looking as on your coin + my coin is 1920 while yours is 1914.
Now the most interesting part of my analysis.
1. On the obverse there is some inner dot. Also on the ear of Yuan Shih Kai. I marked those both things in red color on your coin. There are also 2 on rim, with little different shape. I don't think those are made by some kind of mechanical damage. It is made during producing process. I didn't see similar inner dots on any of my common YSK 1914 and believe me I have seen a lot of YSK dollars 1914 already.
2. A collar looks not clear and not natural, while stars part is quite clear.
3. The surface on obverse and reverse looks rough, like it would have some pitting, which means that the coin has 99% chances to be fake. Unless this is YSK 1914 Xinjiang issued. But that's different design than common YSK 1914. I marked 2 such of rough areas on obverse and reverse on your coin.
4. I believe 3 thin teeth are missing on the end of Yuan's uniform on obverse. Of course they also could be covered by dirt.
5. The 5th chinese character on the obverse of your coin is not clear enough, little blur. Why only this one? why the other are clear? Let's take a look on picture of my coin, picture nr 6a. On my coin you can see that 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th chinese character---they are all not clear. Also part with hair, part with stars and the downstairs part of Yuan's uniform, the are all not clear. Which is normal effect of circulation of this coin, but on your coin: hair are clear, part with stars is clear all 5 chinese characters are clear only this one is not clear.
6. 6th chinese character on obverse of your coin is not fully connected. The downstairs part of 6th character is not connected, it could be also covered by dirt that's why I see it as not connected. However the last chinese character is only not connected on YSK dollar dated 1921 and it is variety. Take a look on closer picture C and D.
That's all about obverse of your coin now reverse...
7. On reverse of your YSK 1914 upstairs (picture A) between rim and small and big teeth there are some strange 2 thin lines. There are no such of lines on genuine coin. Also there are 2 thin lines on rim upstairs on reverse of your coin: just 2 thin lines on rim (picture B). And there is some strange line between the rim and both: thin and big teeth on reverse of left side. This is not right. Please take a look on picture 5a, see the rim of this YSK 1914 and thin and bigger teeth are composited---they are like match to each other. Of course there is double rim on genuine pieces of YSK 1914 but doesn't look like this.
Summarize, your coin is NOT GENUINE coin. You can still take a risk and send this fatman 1914 to NGC but I wouldn't do this. I would return this coin to seller and ask for refund of my money.
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KONDi
