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311413098097Indian gold is hard enough for me as it is, but these pictures have some of the weirdest lighting I've ever seen. I'm gonna have to leave it up to all you experts out there. Is it: Real or Fake? *** Staff Edit - Fixed Link. For future reference, you only need to post the item number, that's it. The software will take care of the rest.   ***
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United States
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23 people believe that the coin is real, but if it were me, I would run like a scared rabbit. PCGS, MS63 is a good 40K coin, which this coin is not, buyer beware.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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No way to tell what this one is from these photos/scans.
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Bedrock of the Community
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A seller who made his ebay bona fides from selling overpriced rolls of "unsearched" cull/cleaned/damaged common-date Wheat cents with occasional salted problem key-date coins...what could possibly go wrong there? A quick Google should give you more than enough information needed to answer your question. I love the current "NNC" PR-69CAM replica/copy Gobrecht coins for $36 each. It might also be worthwhile to note that they strongly discourage the use of Paypal. Wonder why? Oh. One more thing. This particular seller, we'll call him "Bob", is also the president of NNC. No bias there, right? Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis |
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I've seen some of the posts about "Bob" and NNC, so I was already in alert mode. But I had also seen posts where "Bob" was apparently cracking TPG slabs and re-slabbing them in NNC holders. Didn't know if this was one of those, or just a clone. I could not tell from the pics. Too big of a risk for me, but when I came across it I thought I'd post it here. BTW, thanks to site administration on the ebay link thingy - I'll remember that! NOTE: Edited for discretion... thanks, paralyse Edited by Aahz
08/01/2015 9:51 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I prefer not to call out individual sellers directly by their full name or ebay userid for liability reasons, although I will indirectly refer to them as needed. Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis |
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United States
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I wonder if a slabbed problem coin of this genre has been sold recently
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I do not trust NNC, so I'd stay away from that as far as possible.
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United States
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I am no expert, but something strikes me wrong about the mintmark, although it could just be the lightning. I would stay away.
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United States
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probably real, but hard to tell
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Learn to grade like a certain notorious unnamed ebay of ill repute. You need 4 dice (you can steal them from leftover board games that nobody plays) A glue gun A 4 function calculator from the dollar store Take one die and find the FIVE pips. Glue it to the table Take the second die and find the SIX pips. Glue it to the table next to an right of the FIVE. Gives you the starting value of 56 Now for each coin you grade /1/ Wave it over the dice /2/ Speak the magic words "Oh, Baby, am I gonna make MONEY from YOU" /3/ Roll the two dice that aren't glued to the table /4/ Arrange the two dice below the SIX /5/ Using the calculator, add the three number, say you roll a 5 and a 2: 55 + 5 + 2 = MS62 /6/ Mark this value on slab Repeat for each coin -----Burton 50+ year / Life / Emeritus ANA member (joined 12/1/1973) Life member: Numismatics International, CONECA Member: TNA, FtWCC, NETCC, EveryCountry (online) coin club Owned by three cats and a wife of 40+ years (joined 1983) Author: 3rd Edition of the Sample Slabs book, https://www.sampleslabs.info/ |
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Posted 08/01/2015 9:08 pm
