Fake 1804 Large Cent

There certainly appears to be an "excavation" area around the last digit where metal might have been removed.

Gees, they dug a mine into that thing. Reported.

Very Good Point OldSkoolMadSkilz. I didn't take the time to look it over too carefully, simply because I find I have a hard time with varieties on coins that have that much circulation. But now that you've pointed out the OF position, that is obviously NOT an 1804 reverse. Thanks for taking the time to point that out.

Nicely spotted OldSkoolMadSkilz!

Excellent spot OldSkoolMadSkilz. Someone went to alot of trouble to alter that digit. Clearly not an 1804 cent.

LOL @ the mismatched reverse. I think they were hoping the general state of wear would mask the alteration on the obverse or that it'd be confused with pitting or porosity but it's too obvious.

This is why I only buy expensive coins in slabs. A shame it has to be that way, but there are too many fakes and/or ignorant or outright dishonest sellers out there if you can't see the coin in person.

Reported

@grr601: ebay is notorious for having very different standards depending on how much revenue a seller generates (for ebay, not for the seller.) The fact that the seller is reputable actually makes it harder to get violation items removed!

Usually they'll get delisted eventually, but sellers with that sort of feedback usually require quite a bit of complaining to get their listings removed vs. small low feedback sellers of low value items.

This is why a private seller who lists a fake Brand X handbag as their only item on a sub 100 feedback will get near immediate banhammer on a single report, but a 7k feedback 99.9% 5 star seller with 100 of them listed will usually need a large amount of reports to get their auctions/BINs delisted.

Note: to keep this from being too one-sided: there are many sellers who may be legitimately unaware that they're doing something wrong, especially if it's something they don't usually sell, or if it's convincingly real enough to pass as real with the uninformed. If the seller relists items that get delisted, that's almost always a dead giveaway that they know exactly what they're doing, but sometimes, finding out something is a fake or altered can be just as much of a shock to the seller as it is to the bidder!