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Hello everyone! I have a couple Seated Liberty dollars that have me a bit confused on the grading/value. One is a 1843, the other a 1847. Both have the reverse Motto and are stamped CC which from what I read is Carson City mint. What I don't understand is all the photos I see for these two dates show the coins without the reverse motto. They started putting the reverse motto on them in 1866, right? So what do I have?!?! Any help/comments would be greatly appreciated!     |
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Welcome to Coin Community, turner69. I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, but the Carson City Mint did not strike its' first coin until 1870. There's not a chance that your two "Dollars" are real.
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 to the Forum!  with SsuperDdave: your coins are not authentic, sadly. Edited by Moe145
10/31/2013 08:31 am
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and unfortionitely as well... That's really too bad... I wonder if there even silver? If you don't mind me asking where did you get these coins? |
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but too. |
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Welcome to CCF! But yeah these coins are fake sorry..
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Thank you very much for the confirmation. My friend owns a very old bar that had one of those old 1800's "5000lb" floor safes in the corner. All the years of the bar changing hands nobody ever moved the safe. In fact, they built more bar around it!
While doing a floor repair they decided to recruit a crew of guys to move the safe out once and for all. The coins were underneath the safe! Upon first looking at the values we were all excited because the values showed $500 to $27,000 per coin depending on year/grade. But when I got them home and really started to look for details to grade & price it just didn't make sense!
Amazing! I've never seen a counterfeit coin before. Before posting here I even pulled up an authentic image from a later year that had the motto on the back. Pulled that photo and the photo I took of the 1843 and overlay it in Photoshop...it was an exact ridge match except for the CC being too thin. darn good copy! had me fooled at first! Oh well, so much for hidden treasure! :(
Thank you guys! I appreciate your time and assistance!
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you could have a counterfeit that is not common. but now the real question begs:
did this experience get the coin bug to bite you and if so, what will be your first authentic coin you collect?
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I used to collect when I was a little kid. Actually I have quite the stamp collection with stamps from countries that don't even exist anymore. lol! When I was 9 years old I shoveled snow for an old lady and she would pay me with a bag of candy and some stamps from when her husband traveled during his military service years before he died. I still have every one of them now almost 35 years later. Even then the stamps were very old so I know some are probably a bit on the rare side.
Coins..well not so much of a collection as over the years things have gone missing or misplaced. I do have some stuff tucked away in a box that I've not opened in probably 20 years. I should take a look and see what I have that a real collector would appreciate.
I still check my change all the time for that penny worth a million dollars, double strikes, and of course star bills. :)
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Posted 10/31/2013 08:30 am
