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Bedrock of the Community
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I would have guessed MS62 these days. Far worse cleanings make it into problem-free holders. Not that they should but they do.
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Pillar of the Community
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Yep, this is a totally down and dirty counterfeit. Sorry, I did not want to make a fool of anyone. I wanted to show you how good the counterfeiters have gotten. The obverse of this piece was copied from an 1872 Philadelphia Mint coin. The reverse, as I have heard, is from an 1871-S Half Dollar. I would have fooled by this because I would not have known about the reverse.
ANACS called this piece genuine and improperly cleaned. It's another example of the crooks intentionally cleaning up a coin to get it into a "genuine" holder.
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Pillar of the Community
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It is actually an 1875 reverse.
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Pillar of the Community
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Thanks for the clarification, Heymikep. I have never collected Liberty Seated material beyond the type coins.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Bedrock of the Community
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seeing that the only two markers for this are a mark near the "T" in Trust and the size and position of the mint mark I can see how this could even fool the pro's. thanks for sharing this Bill but I still hate you.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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I'm really shaking my head on this one.
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Pillar of the Community
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I have an 1872S half but I am having difficulty comparing the example in this thread with mine. Can anyone tell if mine has the markings of the counterfeit?   |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Well your coin's reverse looks different than the one with the counterfeit markers. That said, all I can say is that yours is not that counterfeit.  Nice looking coin.  IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.comEdited by numismatic student
05/07/2017 7:24 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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Thanks Numismatic Student. My eyes aren't what they usd to be and I wanted to be sure.
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Pillar of the Community
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Worldnumis, From what I can see it is an EDS WB-101, WB-2. It is NOT a counterfeit.
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Pillar of the Community
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Great leaning thread! Thanks
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