Gold $2.50 Indian Head In Coin Roll

What a great way to sell a counterfeit $2 1/2 Indian. Then plead dumb by saying it was in the roll when you got it. Buyers will see the gold and bid the gold value getting the seller a good price for a phony $2 1/2. The perfect con.

The simple age old con of creating greed. Once greed is instilled, intelligence disappears.

T-Bop,

You are correct as I did not read far enough down his advertising page. The 14 day refund policy is part of the con.

The indian looks genuine to me.

If the coin is cast, what are the typical metals use to make the gold counterfeit?

Interesting. Thank you for the heads up

After taking a closer (and longer than 3-second) look at it, I see lots of red flags that the coin is indeed counterfeit. It is definitely not cast, as the fields are shiny and prooflike. The coin was struck from counterfeit dies. I see a depression in the headress, and the details in the devices are rough and mushy. It was the transfer of the coin's design to the dies that caused the rough devices and the inability to capture all of the details in the transfer caused the mushiness in the details. The prooflike surfaces are a result of overpolishing the fields of the die and stiking the coin at a very high strike pressure to make the coin look as "nice" as possible to any potential buyer. The high striking pressure was also used to make the details (which were weak to begin with) as strong as possible since it is nearly impossible to transfer a completely clear and detailed image from the coin to the die. I have yet to see a prooflike indian quarter eagle like this, so that threw me a bit since it wasn't my expectation for a fake indian quarter eagle.