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Pillar of the Community
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Auction number 79448479 seller is asking $1050 I have serious doubts this coin is authentic. What are your opinions?
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ebay auction: [eBayItem]79448479[/eBayItem] is no longer available.
Edited by Moe145
10/24/2012 10:58 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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Pretty harshly cleaned, but I don't know of any perfect reproductions of B-29 BB-119 out there. And given the characteristic "trident" of die cracks about the date, it would be both difficult and a less-than-tempting target.
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10/25/2012 09:45 am
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Bedrock of the Community
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I would not buy a coin from a seller whose edge letter images look like hieroglyphics.
Not that I'm that familiar with the exact edge lettering design mind you. But I'd pass.
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Pillar of the Community
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Well judging by Philadelphians coin and yours they look very similar. The die crack through the date looks very cool.
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Pillar of the Community
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Coin is authentic, but, it has severe hairlines from a past cleaning and has several scratches on the left obverse. Worth about $900 with those problems JMO
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Yes coin appears to be real, but heavy cleaning and pitting, I agree worth about $900
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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
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Philadelphian these hierogylphics are what threw me. I've never seen this on a US coin. Any idea what this stuff translates to?
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They aren't symbolic of letters or anything. The edge lettering in this period was applied by a Castaing machine; two parallel bars, each with half the lettering, and the coin was rolled in between. I suppose a string of these decorative elements was at the end of each bar (to take up extra space?). There are two clusters of symbols, one on each side of the edge; I photographed them above. See how the rightmost star in the second photo is cut off? That's where the Castaing machine stopped.
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Posted 10/24/2012 11:06 pm
