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Valued Member
Australia
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Opinion on this coin? Not mines so I can't get better photos   |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1409 Posts |
Looks like a counterfeit coin and slab.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
8803 Posts |
The label has the wrong spacing in the cert number and the font is off slightly. The coin itself looks like it would grade at least MS67 if it were real.
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Valued Member
Australia
421 Posts |
That's what I thought, but since I wasn't familiar with them was going to ask first. Was being sold for 999 AUD which was a red flag for me. Worries me that someone realise they could fake a PCGS coin since there wasn't any photo of the actual coin on PCGS site.
Ms67? O.o
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2350 Posts |
So I didn't know that the Zero mint made dollars in 1889.
LOL that font is so wrong. Also, usually, when I see a picture of a slab, I take a screenshot and of the barcode and use an online barcode reader to see if it matches up.
The code on the slab pictured does not compute. This could happen with a genuine slab as well when the picture quality is poor, but is another strike against this one.
So the slab is fake, with a "borrowed" cert number, the coin is almost certainly fake as well.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
601 Posts |
Looks fake. Make a call, In the United States call toll free at 800-447-8848, give them the site location and let them look at it. They probably need to know about it if someone has stolen their cert number. IMHO.
Where is this coin?
Rookie with bad eyes, take what I say with a grain of salt and call an expert in the morning!
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Looks fake. Make a call, In the United States call toll free at 800-447-8848, give them the site location and let them look at it. They probably need to know about it if someone has stolen their cert number. IMHO. Don't call PCGS about it, they're aware that it happens and would be swamped with calls all day long if people called in every time they saw one of these. Things like that are one of the main reasons more security features keep getting added to the slabs
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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This being the second one on here I've seen in 24-48 hours, it gets me thinking. How do they obtain legit cert numbers? They could start with the coin, look at auction websites, find one for the year/mint/grade, but this seems too labor intensive given that they seem to be doing every denomination/year/mint/grade. I'm thinking they scrape the PCGS website and have accumulated a duplicate of the PCGS database, or just hacked in and stole it all at once. But with that level of sophistication I'd think they would get the fonts and barcode correct. Heck, I did a system to print barcodes off a database 25 years ago. I guess we're lucky so far that these people aren't the sharpest tools in the shed, but it's only going to get worse.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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How do they obtain legit cert numbers? They could start with the coin, look at auction websites, find one for the year/mint/grade, but this seems too labor intensive given that they seem to be doing every denomination/year/mint/grade. I'm thinking they scrape the PCGS website and have accumulated a duplicate of the PCGS database, or just hacked in and stole it all at once. But with that level of sophistication I'd think they would get the fonts and barcode correct. Heck, I did a system to print barcodes off a database 25 years ago. I guess we're lucky so far that these people aren't the sharpest tools in the shed, but it's only going to get worse. You're way overthinking it again. It takes 10 seconds to find certs online, there's no need to hack anything.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2321 Posts |
A lot of the PCGS counterfeit slabs are made in China, and they target PCGS cert numbers that do not have a photo or a link to a auction photo on cert look up. As Basebal21 notes it is easy to find cert numbers online, on eBay a PCGS coin search can be done by date, mint mark and grade. PCGS has announced that they are going to be taking photos of all certified coins in the the near future, but the TPG's are going to have to improve slab security to stay ahead of the counterfeiters. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Valued Member
Australia
421 Posts |
True they can just do a search, and even if they aren't good at English they can use Baidu translation tools or WeChat. Opinion on contacting this seller (OP shop/pawn shop)?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
837 Posts |
Fake coin in a fake slab by a lazy faker. Everything is comically off and they didn't even put the coin in the slab straight
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