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Double-Struck 1885 Liberty Nickel - Real Or Not?

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 Posted 03/02/2015  4:17 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add rottnrog to your friends list
It's a fake !!
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 Posted 03/02/2015  6:04 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add SsuperDdave to your friends list
I lean fake; needs more denticles on the second strike. They're on the die, after all.
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 Posted 03/02/2015  6:20 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ExoGuy to your friends list
If this piece was genuine, it would have been in a slab, years ago ...

Come to think of it, I need to get my 1885 slabbed ... Probably XF details!

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 Posted 03/03/2015  2:38 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Conder101 to your friends list
Listed as a one day sale with a $1200 opening, not interest. Relisted againa as a one day sale with a $1200 opening and no interest. relisted yet again as a one day sale with a $1000 opening. I think he is hoping to et a quick sale and avoid it being brought to ebays attention. Otherwise why not do a multi-day sale and give more people a change at seeing it?

Oh and it IS a fake.
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 Posted 03/03/2015  6:09 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ExoGuy to your friends list
Relisted at $999.99 ... being sold as a fake.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1885-Libert...21685514125?

Seller says: "Good luck bidding." So, the lucky buyer gets a counterfeit error ...
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 Posted 03/03/2015  9:28 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add westcoin to your friends list
I say fake - no doubt in my mind.
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 Posted 03/05/2015  04:19 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Gyrene7483 to your friends list

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"I've bought this coin in ebay some years ago. It cost me almost $2500.00"
His story is as fake as the coin.
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 Posted 03/05/2015  10:02 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Conder101 to your friends list
Maybe, maybe not. These fakes have been around for awhile and he could have been suckered back then. (Or he may have been marketing the whole time. Who knows.)
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 Posted 03/05/2015  10:20 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ExoGuy to your friends list
I'm at a loss to explain why this auction was again ended and again relisted. Can anyone tell me why?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1885-Libert...21686672226?

Same price & description as previous one, it appears.

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 Posted 03/05/2015  11:00 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add SsuperDdave to your friends list
Think he's trying to keep it away from our view. By now, even if he started innocently having been originally taken himself, it's on him.
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 Posted 03/05/2015  2:26 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add hoosiergator to your friends list
Do not get suckered in. This coin is fake as fake can be. He has been listing it since last Summer and it has been discussed on many coin forums. It is a fake.
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 Posted 03/05/2015  2:41 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add SteveCaruso to your friends list
Hmm don't know how I missed this one for so long. I can't see any way that this could be real. I would expect a distinctly different look for it being struck multiple times like that.
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 Posted 03/05/2015  7:57 pm  Show Profile   Check vermontensium's eBay Listings Check vermontensium's eCrater Listings Bookmark this reply Add vermontensium to your friends list
Not a chance it's real. All I needed to see was the date.
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 Posted 03/06/2015  10:37 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Conder101 to your friends list

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I'm at a loss to explain why this auction was again ended and again relisted. Can anyone tell me why?

He does them as one day sales. He is hoping to get a quick sale to a sucker before he can be discovered. reported and ebay does something about it.
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 Posted 03/06/2015  10:54 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ExoGuy to your friends list
Sort of a hit, duck and run then, huh, Conder?

Relisted, yet again ... http://www.ebay.com/itm/1885-Libert...21687768508?

Reported, again, too.
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