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Pillar of the Community
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Looks like the seller has already sold a 1943-S copper cent 6 months ago
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Bedrock of the Community
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 Welcome to our frustration. I try to educate all who ask questions here. Rather than giving a yes or no answer, I explain what I see on their coin. I use a few images to help them see, what I see. I find this works well here. Glad to see others using my images, logic and kindness. I ran onto a web site recently that sells fakes. So what do I do. Educate so that they will learn rather than spend money for bogus stuff sold. So we know your frustration. Welcome aboard. |
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Greetings, all. I am a long-time coin buff... What Coop said.. Also what P.T. Barnum (supposedly) said.. There's plenty of diagnostic, confirmational and/or fraud-busting information out there and readily available these days for anyone who bothers to take even the slightest amount of time out of their oh-sooo-busy schedule to check the validity of just about anything prior to making a purchase.. I honestly can't bring myself to feel sorry for those saps, since ya just know they are buying it on the premise of flipping it for an even bigger pay day.. Odds are they don't even have a collection to put a coin like that into (assuming it is real, which it isn't) and I doubt they were buying it as their starter coin.. I say let them be the example we'll read about next month in The Daily Mail and let them be the one who needs to go through the time-consuming and most likely futile process of trying to recover their loss from a "brother-in-arms.." That old adage: "If it seems too good to be true it probably is" is still just as valid today as it ever was, probably even more so in this messed up era of "lies are the new truth" being foisted upon us.. Swamp PS: Welcome to CCF.. Edited by da Swampster
07/01/2018 10:17 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Cheap for a real '43 copper...expensive for a fake one.
KK
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New Member
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Thanks guys. Basically the same thing I thought - greed and lack of common sense help make terrible choices.
This seller has quite the racket, but I'm almost certain that fraud and counterfiting are frowned on by Uncle Sam.
I'm glad to hear the grading svc stood behind their errors!
I'm going out to some yard sales to look for old coins and 1990s rookie cards.
Cheers!
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You've come to the right place for education and advice. One thing I've always found amusing, or should I say galling, is after taking someone to the cleaners with a fake coin,they make them pay $3.99 to send it to them. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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To CCF! I don't think this is a real Copper Wheat cent etheir. These are very commonly faked. Errers and Varietys.
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Pillar of the Community
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And the bidders weren't even alerted when the "coin" was being sold by a seller named "s888n" ("Satan")?
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Rest in Peace
United States
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It takes time to be proficient with any skill, including coin identification.
Those who believe in easy education without that time commitment are ripe for the picking.
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Pillar of the Community
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seller named "s888n" ("Satan")? I didn't even catch that. Thanks for pointing it out |
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Pillar of the Community
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 They don't call it " ebay" for nothing! |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Question: Has anyone heard of a fake making it past grading? It's bound to happen eventually. It makes me reluctant to invest in coins, stamps or cards again... just when the bug had returned! Fake 1943 copper cents? NO. Fakes in general? Yes. The services are not infallible and in the past few years some good Chinese fakes have gotten past all three of the top TPG's. And that doesn't include the fake Micro O Morgans that fooled the services for years. (NGC and ANACS determined they were fakes in 1998, PCGS kept slabbing them as genuine for another seven years.) Edited by Conder101
07/01/2018 8:20 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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to CCF Great question and topic. Don't be a stranger. Good luck hunting. |
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to the Community! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Skimming through "Satan's" previous feedbacks, I saw where he was also hit with a Negative back in August of 2015 for selling a fake 1916-D Mercury dime.  |
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