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 Posted 05/06/2015  8:06 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add CoinQfromJon to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I have an 1846 Liberty Seated and I am wondering about the mint marks. I suspect it might be a fake, but I could be wrong. Can anyone help me? The coin is self-graded at about VG to F and has the looks of a genuine specimen; but I notice that, even though they were minted in Phila., N.O., C.C., and S.F.; my 2015 guide book only mentions two types of 1846s, 1846-O and 1846 (I'm assuming no mint mark?). Anyway, my coin has a CC for Carson City as a mint mark below the eagle on the reverse. Is my coin a fraud? An error? Extra rare? Thank you for your time. - Jonathan
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 Posted 05/06/2015  8:18 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add hoosiergator to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Sorry but it is a fraud. "CC" stands for Carson City mint.

The Carson City mint was not even built for another 20 years. You have a Chinese fake.
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 Posted 05/06/2015  8:24 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add CoinQfromJon to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you. That's unfortunate. I will check for silver content, though. I exchanged it for a dollar. Hopefully it's real silver so that I still profit.
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It's highly unlikely that the fake has any silver content.

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Technically it falls under the "fantasy" catagory not counterfit if it has the cc mint mark. A counterfit is a coin that is meant to deceive AND made to look like a real coin. While yours WAS made to deceive most likely it has a mint mark of a mint that never made that coin especially that year so technically it is a fantasy piece but still counts as counterfit to numismatists because it can deceive the unknowing collector
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 Posted 05/07/2015  12:11 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add CoinQfromJon to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks, guys. Yeah, I'm one of those unknowing collectors. I just started collecting numismatics. I'm a raw gold/silver kind of guy and was always anti-numismtic because of the premiums and instances like this one. I started getting interested when my girlfriend was a cashier at a gas station and she started getting the occasional customer paying for cigarettes with pre-1965 quarters and, believe it or not, Morgan silver dollars. I imagine the customers were dumb thieves of the coins because nobody in possession of nothing but 90% silver coins are going to give them up for a few cigarettes. And yes, the coin in the topic came from one of these customers. Cool thing is, all the other coins are legit. 26 pre-65 quarters, 9 Morgans (3 which are AU/MS condition), one jfk half, one 90% Roosevelt dime, two Mercury dimes, and a 1986 Statue of Liberty Centennial Commemorative silver dollar. The one dollar lost on the fake is not a big deal considering what we've gotten in the past. But yeah, I should have known about the CC marking being a red flag because I remember reading about the CC Mint being delayed in construction/operation during the civil war, which started about 15 years after the date of the coin. I took a cheap risk and lost. Oh well. But I will start respecting numismatics more and gain more knowledge about them. Thanks, everyone, for helping me out.
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