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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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So what is the marker that we should be looking at to tell this is a fake?
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
1192 Posts |
Very mushy details despite looking to be in mint condition. Shape of the date. Font of the letters in the legend. Plus all the red flags mentioned in the OP.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Some people are just too polite - get stiffed with a fake coin and the worst you can do is leave neutral feedback? Good grief, what would have to happen before you leave negative feedback!?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
867 Posts |
Well when I look at that 1914 quarter, that looks like it's been polished to be a mirror, does the buyer really thinking he's getting the deal of the century? Con artists always use greed against their victims.....too many eBayers think they are going to score a bargain against an unwitting seller...that's why people go garage sailing, scour flea markets etc.....they deserve to be fleeced.
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
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The 1914 is a Chinese counterfeit, absolutely no doubt.
The pics of the 1923 are too poor to be 100% certain, likely a counterfeit, at minimum it's a coin with major problems. Can't believe someone would pay a high AU price based on those pics.
"Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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Valued Member
Canada
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The word CANADA seems to close to the edge to me as well as the A's on the bottom don't look quite right either.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
519 Posts |
I reported the 1923 small cent a few days back, it is definitely fake. Looks like it sold anyways.
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Moderator
 Canada
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"Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Forum Kid
Canada
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to be able to judge a coin completely, you need to be able to have it in the hand. they sure did a nice job on the 1914..  |
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Forum Dad
United States
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to be able to judge a coin completely, you need to be able to have it in the hand. Not true at all. Tons can be identified as fake from pictures. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I keep looking at this 1901 5 cent and I am reasonably sure it is fake too. The fuzzy picture makes it difficult to make out, but the serifs on the letters look wrong and it has that same weird grainy/proof look to it.. http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Canada-1901-...em487490325e |
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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RE 1901 5c- Not sure if it's fake or not but wonder why the pictures are so blurry. Most of his pictures are pretty sharp. His "Dad" must have had a big collection. He's been selling them for over 3 years on ebay. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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That 1901 is lustrous and breathtaking "at first glance" ..and probably would have fooled me ..on the quick take..
It's semi mirror fields dragged me in. ..
I wasn't in the bid though,..this posting brought this coin to my attention..
Thanks for constantly bringing these to the forefront for us..
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I couldn't find the 'newfie" fakes thread that I saw a few days back but here is another. http://www.ebay.fr/itm/Superbe-copi...em23462fd71dIn this case the seller admits it to being a copy but one hates to have this stuff around. Is it possible to start a separate sub forum for these? I find ebay reacts quicker to volume complaints. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I think it would be a great idea to have a sub forum, for threads on fake coins. Here's why, new comers could find the information easily. All topics old or new would be in 1 place easy to search for the older discussions as they're not mixed with other threads. When wanting to discuss fake coins it's all in one area. It become a very good go to source. Now where to put it? Would it be strictly for Canadian coins ? Better yet a separate sub forum for all fake coins. It would be a super resource, if there were questions on any world coin.
It's very impressive over 1,000 daily posts. I never thought it got so high.
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12/06/2014 4:55 pm
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