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I'm cautiously optimistic about it due to the distance between E PLURIBUS UNUM and the back, which is increased due to the same polishing which made the leg disappear. However, this seller is notorious for overexposing images, which tends to hide problems and inflate the perceived grade; this example is not as nice as it's being made out to be.
There's also an interesting note about Feedback for high-volume sellers here. How do you visualize this seller? "Wow! Almost 40,000 Feedbacks and 99.5% Positive!" Or, "Wow. This guy's gotten 51 Negatives in the last year alone."
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Yeah, I'm inclined to call that real. Images are crap, but the coin looks legit.
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From what I recall, this seller pedaled mostly harshly cleaned coins. I've had his auctions excluded from all my saved searches for a good couple of years now.
I'm not 100% sure the 3 'legger is legit, but nothing screams that it's an altered fake.
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The one diagnostic (from Bill Fivaz's Counterfeit Detection Guide) I didn't see on the coin was Quote:
There is a longer appendage from the bison's belly, with a long, raised arc of "bumps"leading down to the ground. and this may be to the wear on the coin. Either way, if I were to purchase this, the seller would have to guarantee this coin would holder as Genuine. |
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I'm thinking it's there, just washed out by overexposed images.
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Funny this seller bought a coin from me a while back, perhaps doing his/her magic to polish it up?
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I like that Buffalo nickel. I think it would grade around F-12 to VF-20. It's real I'm guessing. |
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Avoid just based on his feedback.
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There's also an interesting note about Feedback for high-volume sellers here. How do you visualize this seller? "Wow! Almost 40,000 Feedbacks and 99.5% Positive!" Or, "Wow. This guy's gotten 51 Negatives in the last year alone." I'm going with the latter. Whenever someone is at 98.8 or lower, my view has always been there are almost certainly some more folks who would have liked to leave a negative but just didn't, for whatever the reason. It's almost certainly a genuine 3 legger but, yechh, what an awful photo. |
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Posted 10/13/2013 1:06 pm
