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I think the coin would probably be real by looking at the sellers feedback.
The seller has a 100% feedback and the seller has also sold a lot of coins. Look at what kind of coins he has sold (overpriced gold plated replicas). That gives me little assurance that this one is real. The only real coins he has listed currently is (1971 P D U.S. MINT SET BU PROOF COINS CENT HALF DOLLARS) |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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...without clicking on the coin I knew it was fake... How did you know without even looking at larger images? Just curious....that's all...... |
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Pillar of the Community
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looks like a D mint mark to me......
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Fake in my opinion...The MM looks horrible and even the date looks off. It amazes me the amount of bids this has and the amount of cash floating around on this coin. People bid on anything these days.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
588 Posts |
i saw it from a small photo and it was enough, I mean MM, the date and the coin itself didnt look right at all.
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United States
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I would have to vote fake. The distance between the numbers is to close. and as compared to the closest example the mm isn't even close. In the same scale the date is 10% shorter from left to right.  |
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Valued Member
United States
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Knowing that a nice, clear photo would probably rake in more cash, I wonder why the seller decided to just quickly photograph a picture of a valuable coin and sell it hastily? Something is fishy.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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seller didn't do anything wrong except taking bad pictures. he started the auction at $0.99, its the bidders that made the price go up so much. Would I buy a raw example by those pictures, no I wouldn't but I wouldn't buy a graded example either unless it was for someone else
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Yes Bryan1315 is right its the peoples fault not the seller's its for sale but nobody is asking them to bid
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I'd say fake. The mintmark looks too far right to be die 3, the date size and shape isn't right, the unusual sunkenness of the temple area and the shape of the cheekbone area is wrong compared to the 1909 hub, and the hair detail doesn't appear to match the 1909 hub. Don't know if the pictures will work but I'll try.   Also note the nose is more pointed on the ebay coin compared to the rounded nose on the genuine coin, and the curve of the back edge of the shoulder is different. They used an hub of Lincoln from a different decade to make the fake die. (Lincolns portrait has been touched up several times over the years. A specialist could look at this bust and tell you what time period it was used. I can't do that, but I can see that it is different from the original bust.) |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I'm no Lincoln expert either, but everything about this coin screams fake to me.  We don't even need to focus on tiny diagnostics. Put your thumb over the date on the ebay coin--what decade of the obverse does that most resemble? I'd say the 1970s. Speaking of the date, the digits--particularly the 9 is completely wrong. They are squished horizontally, the inside loops almost connect, and the lower tails are wrong. Compare to the photo below of a similar fake. It appears they fixed that obvious blunder with the 1.   Quote:
I'm no coin expert but...yada, yada, yada. The lamest, most over-used excuse ever.  You make the claim, you do the legwork to verify your item--simple as that. Sorry for the rant, but this stuff really is beyond belief. I reported this--if that helps. Edited by DVCollector
01/07/2010 4:52 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Well I guess this picture leaves no further questions
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Pillar of the Community
United States
968 Posts |
I was going to give the seller the benefit of the doubt that maybe he really didn't know it was fake, but when I looked at another one of his auctions it made me think he is misleading on purpose. Or at the very least he is being willfully ignorant about the coin and doesn't want to learn it is a fake. The auction below is for a replica of a gold coin (1838 Eagle). Notice that while he says it is a replica and it is gold plated, he then goes on to make a big deal about the price of gold and how you should buy this as an investment. Fortunately with a final price of $10.50 no one was fooled. But if he is willing to try and convince people that buying $2 worth of gold plating is an "investment" then I wouldn't trust him on anything else. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...280443432376 |
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If I'm going to buy keys raw, it won't be on ebay that's for sure. swcoin.ecrater.com
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