Suspicious Looking 1793 Cent On The Bay

When comparing the two shots side by side,

a) look at the shape of the top portion of the 3 digit,

b) observe the point on the adjacent '1' where the left top portion of the '7' digit points to: not the small connected section pointing downward,

c) irrespective of the possibility of varieties the first significant indentation in the hair curls/waves proceeding downward from the top of the head(closest to the upper forehead) appears to be unnatural based upon expected & normal wear patterns.

them make your decision.

mdpmedia

When oh when will Minnesota ban ebay? Talk about your 24-7 con games.

It's a fake Wreath Cent not Chain.

I reported it, too ... Sadly, I filed more than a dozen "reports" on another fake seller before he/she got taken down. I'm wondering if this ebay reporting system has been relegated to a "numbers game?" In other words, the ebay geniuses may need to see a certain number of reports before thay'll take one seriously?

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There are some electrotype fakes that are quite old and valuable, this is NOT one of them. A decent electrotype copy would sell for around $400+ on a coin such as this.

No they used collars before that. The Half Cents, large cents, half dollars, and dollar coins used an open collar that was only used for centering the coin between the dies until 1836 when the close collar was introduced.

The reeded edge coins used a somewhat close collar that didn't truly confine the coin and raise a rim like the close collars, but did confine it enough to impart the reeding on the edge of the coin. The mint bagan experimenting making the collar closer and closer during the 1820's finally going with the full close collar on the small diameter bust dimes in 1829. (While the bust dimes are listed as large diameter and small diameter, the diameter actually gradually reduced during the 1820's.)

In 1836 the close collar was introduced to all coins. The Seated coins began the following year.