Fake 1804 Draped Bust Dollar On Ebay

I disagree. Check out the wiki page. One of the known specimens IS owned by Yogi Bear. Let's not downplay the importance of retired cartoon characters in numismatics. Recall that the 1913 V nickel was just recently purchased by Quickdraw McGraw.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1804_silver_dollar

Completely irresponsible dealer. I wouldn't buy another thing from him. Just sayin'

1 hour to go, and ebay and the scammer are still going stong.

If the deal goes through, the buyer will probably wet his pants.

I reported the " Seated dollar" too. I'm usually hesitant to prejudge such sellers. I didn't bother to write to this one as he weighed apparently genuine coins, showing pics thereof. He didn't post pics of the fakes on a scale. My guess is that he's trying to pass the fakes off as they were negligent purchases on his part .... "passing the buck" so to speak!

And to think that if I was a dishonest individual I could make a fortune. I have lots of these counterfeit coins. The only difference between me and these buyers, though, is that I bought the fakes in order to "know" the enemy.

I have a working reference collection of about 200 fake coins.

Most of them are fake ancient coins; they have certainly helped me to avoid grief when considering the purchase of proportedly GENUINE coins (especially ancients).

I maintain such collection to further my educatuion in learning how to identify them.

I also maintain a reasonable specialist reference library on the subject of fake coins: their manufacture, their source, the testing of them, and their identification.

ANY coin dealer worth his salt should be doing the same thing, to protect his own reputation, and to provide good professional service to his customers.