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Not letting my 13 year old look at first one!
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Anyone with half a brain can see the first one isn't anything resembling a real coin. The second one is almost as bad. It always amazes me how some people think that no one will notice an obviously poor copy and actually be dumb enough to pay that much money for it. Ed ANA LM-3175 |
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Hey everybody, I just bought this awesome 1861 confederate coin on E-bay. I would ask for endowment, but she has already been sufficiently endowed. Do you think I should send it in to PCGS? I think it speaks for itself,but I am not aBreast of the current market on civil war coins. If I had half a brain I would re-sell this at Heritage, don't you think? There is a die rack on the obverse.  Edited by Arcticsparky
01/23/2013 12:45 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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It's always wise to keep abreast of new coin varieties and then implant them in one's mamory ...
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... correction ... make that memory!
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I learn so much here, sometimes I feel like such a boob. Thanks
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ExoGuy,
Mammy, how I love you, how I love you, Mammy.
Was this a Freudian slip?
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I believe Freud just woke up in his grave.
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If a buyer does happen to bite on that %250 BIN price, he's definitely a sucker ....
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I was, of course, joking about the purchase. Someone just the other day paid over 600 dolars for a fake 1895-P on E-bay. We discussed this on another post.
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Great posts but I don't get the point or is it points?
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Haha that is awesome. I have one of the second link coins, my parents got it for me long ago because of my fascination with coins and with the Civil War. One day, I hope to actually get a Confederate die half.
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Hey Arcticsparky ... I knew you were joking, telling a falsie, whatever. Slowaltima ... These ebay items aren't coins as they were not government issue. They're copies or replicas. While you or I may never get a chance to own one of the genuine Confederate halves, there's an intriguing alternative that is very affordable. When the Confederates took over the New Orleans Mint, they did strike half dollars, dated 1861-O. The dies that they used have telling die breaks. If you peruse the 1861-O half dollars on ebay, you can spot some of them. Be careful to look for and study the four varieties before buying one though. At least one seller is offering one that appears to lack any of the die breaks. |
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Someone just the other day paid over 600 dolars for a fake 1895-P on E-bay. We discussed this on another post.
We nailed that one before anybody got ripped off, even though it was after the fact. We have more lead time on this one, and it'll almost certainly not make it to the end of the auction. |
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