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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1295 Posts |
I don't see anything on this coin that would make me doubt its authenticity. The weakness on the reverse could be due to wear, a weak strike, or a grease-filled die.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
12437 Posts |
The brown areas on the obverse rim look suspiciously like rust.
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Valued Member
United Kingdom
179 Posts |
I call fake on that one, some of the denticles look like they are detached from the rim.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3453 Posts |
I would have to say no. I believe I see pitting on both obverse and reverse, combine that with weak talons, the wonky O in "Of" and overall weakness means no real to me.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7613 Posts |
That Seller has another Seated dollar listed, too. Both look suspicious to me and they are about the same condition-wise. They have a lot of cheap coins/notes listed along with the Seated dollars. All that does is raise questions in my mind. When in doubt, don't. |
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Rest in Peace
United States
10625 Posts |
Both Seated dollars are fake. Two different dates with the same divot in the letter O in OF. (along with all mentioned above). |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10982 Posts |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
1888 Posts |
The 1840 currently listed clearly looks fake. All sorts of weaknesses like missing feathers and improper denticles plus blobs of metal between various letters.. and it has a three hundred ninety nine bid.  |
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Valued Member
440 Posts |
Seeing more and more of this; so sad.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
2517 Posts |
Don't know much about US coins, but I agree, the Seated Liberty looks grainy and the weakness in the reverse is suspicious. The reverse denticles are also rather bad looking especially on the right. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3843 Posts |
Yikes look at this seller's previous sales, looks like they have sold a few.  |
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Valued Member
United States
259 Posts |
Agree both are counterfeit. When you've seen enough of them you realize they have a certain look to them. We should be reporting these to ebay whenever we see them. |
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Valued Member
United States
308 Posts |
Maybe this seller needs to be turned in and not be able to continue with these sales. Pretty hard to deal with this situation.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
5417 Posts |
I would say fake also, looks like weakness is weird areas and pitting all along the dies.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7613 Posts |
The more I look, the more I see. This Seller has an earlier history of selling high end Seated quarters sandwiched in between other listings of common everyday "stuff" like tools, etc. If the truth were known, and the Seated Qtr pics were still available, I'd suspect they were questionable coins, too. Looks like they have now graduated to the fake Seated dollar scam. (Bigger coins equal bigger money!). Most likely, when the Buyer receives the coin and realize its fake, they contact the Seller and will get the "I'm so sorry, I didn't realize it was fake" song and dance and then immediately have their money refunded. The Buyer feels "bad" for them but still leaves "good" feedback even though the coin was counterfeit. (THAT, I do not understand!) They were also obviously trying to "up" their feedback numbers but got nailed with a neutral when they kept "bugging" someone to leave them feedback. (An ebay unwritten rule for all Sellers --- Never, ever beg or ask for Feedback!) We can report this stuff all day long but ebay just takes their sweet time investigating it. With the Seller running 3-day auctions, by the time ebay gets around to investigating it the auction has already ended. It's just a vicious, never ending cycle that just keeps getting worse. |
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Posted 05/12/2014 12:32 pm
