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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Sometimes a coin sells on ebay that infuriates me. Here is one such coin. It sold after 23 bids by FIVE bidders for over $100. My question is WHY would anyone spend $100 for this hunk of junk? Here is the auction. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mexico-8-Re...251186476348 I copied the picture so that it could be seen after the auction comes down.  Even with what is a lousy picture - the fact that this is a forgery is SO obvious that it is not funny. I wonder why anyone bid at all. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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ebay was so much more fun back when we could contact bidders during the process and warn them. I used to enjoy the hate emails from the sellers trying to pawn off obvious fakes as the real coin.
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Pillar of the Community
France
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Yes, I miss that time ... now it's a nightmare, and you cannot do anything.
I talked with some of Juan Melgar's buyers, they couldn't even return the coin (it's always a nice fight with paypal's support when you need to do that, you have to have nice arguments and references, and be prepared to fight) ...
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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New Member
United States
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Gross. Feel bad for the buyer who thinks he's getting the real coin
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Ebay was so much more fun back when we could contact bidders during the process and warn them.  I got a lot of enjoyment knowing that I saved somebody $$$. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Bob - Thats why this upcoming ANS CC8R book you are working on is so important - it will not only educate people of Spanish American Reale counterfeits but INDIRECTLY it will teach people how counterfeits are made and how to spot fakes of any world coin they are collecting in any time period. BTW the Craddock book is in route and you should have it next Monday/Tuesday 12/3-4.
John Lorenzo
United States
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United States
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I'm looking forward to that book, too ... because to me it's not obvious why that coin is a fake! On the other hand, that's also why I wouldn't buy this coin or any others like it for $100.
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Valued Member
Germany
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I am quite convinced that the people bidding on such coin-like products wouldn't want to spend the same amount on a book about forgeries even if they knew of its existence! How many people collecting Pillar Dollars own a copy of Gilboy's work? How many people collecting Cap & Rays own "Resplandores"? Over the years, I have had contact over the internet several times with buyers of fake counterstamps on ebay. More than one of them told me that they had been collecting counterstamps for years and had spent decades in numismatics, yet they didn't own a single reference of the specific counterstamp they had just bought for a lot of money (apart from the ubiquitous standard reference with capital letters). I guess we are all born suckers when we start collecting coins, but some choose to learn and others apparently don't... |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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I agree completely that the AVERAGE collector seems to be more interested in a bargain coin than in learning something of value. Too many people are simply involved to make a buck. It is just that type that gets taken by buying these kinds of fakes. They can't seem to believe that they can save (make) far more by knowing what they are doing.
I hope that the book will begin a learning process with at least some collectors.
But I fear the real suckers will always be there.
If they were not we would have a lot of unemployed forgers.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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hammerrob - In the book I have a section on that one error. It is very simple and obvious one once you think about it.
But no one has got it yet. It is NOT the fields.
Any other guesses? I have actually written this error up a few times now.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1801 Posts |
The denticles end before the planchet does
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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I have had a great teacher.
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