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Valued Member
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Raised dots on and near wing. Look at the banner! YIKES!
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Valued Member
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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it doesn't look genuine to me. Weak denticles, lumps of metal, and has an odd color which I have seen on a few other Chinese fakes.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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 The reverse denticles alone are enough to scare me off.  |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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It appears to be a chinese fake.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2850 Posts |
His feedback is also pretty bad which should tell you something.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I sent an inquiry about the weight ... I'm wondering if this item might have spent some time in a tumbler so as to artificially age it?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
595 Posts |
It doesn't look real to me. The denticles fade away on the reverse under the word Dollar and are replaced by some odd blobs of metal.
From his description, I learned that silver was more valuable than gold at the time this was made. I wonder why gold dollars were so much smaller that silver dollars in 1873?
My suggestions is RUN!
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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99.99% sure this is a fake. And I feel pretty good about that other .01% too.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
5823 Posts |
Counterstamped? Garbage! Reported to ebay. |
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Pillar of the Community
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Yikes that's not even close!
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Pillar of the Community
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I learned that silver was more valuable than gold at the time this was made. I wonder why gold dollars were so much smaller that silver dollars in 1873? I looked at kitco's historical prices and for 1873, the average yearly price of silver was about $1.42/oz while gold was fixed at $20.67/oz. It seems like this is an attempt by the seller to help sell the coin. |
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The seller wrote back to me. He didn't weigh the item as I requested and merely quoted the weight given in the RedBook. |
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Posted 09/25/2013 09:33 am
