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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The date looks sort of odd as does the mintmark and being that it's from China doesn't help because that's where a huge portion of fakes originate.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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As the others said-- an original "CC" Morgan is worth a fair bit more than $30 but the patina is weird and the coin is too crude for what appears to be a VF-30 with the stars outright flat. I'm 80% sure this a fake. Definitely file a claim with paypal, get your money back and still keep the coin. Makes for a nice keepsake!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
8517 Posts |
See if it will stick to a magnet.
Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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Rest in Peace
United States
10625 Posts |
I say hecho en china, fake.....
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
4944 Posts |
I agree, it looks like a counterfeit.
The coin appears to have a grainy look to it, which is common with fakes.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Edited by yingyang
03/12/2014 10:21 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1431 Posts |
Something about Liberty's jawline looks a bit off to me in addition to the other red flags.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2797 Posts |
It also appears to have the "reverse of 1921" arrow feather configuration (common on the Chinese fakes). A close-up would confirm. My vote is also a Chinese counterfeit.
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New Member
 United States
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Thank you all very much for your input, I appreciate it. I wish I could post more detailed pics, but as I only use my android and currently don't have a computer I cannot get better pics to post as they are over the 100kb limit. It took me 20 min just to get those two pics to be under the allowed limit. I'm not a coin ccollector but am a fan of shows like "Pawn Stars" so I can't believe I didn't think to try a magnet on it. First thing I'm ggoing to do after work  But hey, thanks again for helping out the newbie! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I know the picture posting can be daunting the first time or two. The size limit only applies if you are hosting the pic's here. If you're linking to another photo hosting site you are safe up to about 300kb. Anything larger than that the viewer will have to scroll ... and we try to avoid that here.  Another thing you can do is crop the pictures. I see a lot of table in those pictures and that wood is not important to us. Here's a cropped version of the reverse. It is indeed the reverse of 1921 and a Counterfeit.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2797 Posts |
Here's a handy comparison of the arrow feather configurations on the Morgan dollar. Note this is not the tailfeather configuration (8TF, 7/8TF or 7TF) discussed elsewhere.  |
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Moderator
 United States
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Another thing you can do is crop the pictures. I see a lot of table in those pictures and that wood is not important to us. Here's a cropped version of the reverse. It is indeed the reverse of 1921 and a Counterfeit.
It's not quite a '21 reverse. The top arrow fletch is wrong. This is actually kind of an interesting one - looks to me like a die built from scratch. The letter spacing is wrong, the eagle'd head is wrong, the arrow heads are wrong. But they included the known "Broken D" in DOLLAR.  Kinda cool, if you ask me. |
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United States
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New Member
United States
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Yeah a magnet doesn't stick to it but I see you guys have already found all the inconsistencies in it. I filed a claim with PayPal but again, thanks for all your help and input
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Chances are the xbox would be a cheap chinese knock-off anyways.  |
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Posted 03/12/2014 8:58 pm
