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Bought this two for $5 today.my husband said he thinks they are fake.what do you think?
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100% authentic off-center errors. That is a reasonable price to pay for them as well.
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United States
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I can't say I've ever seen a fake error coin before. I don't even know how you'd go about counterfeiting one of these.
That being said, I can't exactly confirm they're real either. Might be best to wait for someone familiar with mint errors.
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They appear to be genuine. Counterfeiters have so far only lightly polluted the die struck error market. Notable exceptions include the 1951-D Lincoln Cent and 1884-O Morgan dollar die struck off center fakes. Unlimited quantities produced off the same non-Mint dies are brazenly sold on large online marketplaces. Many have ended up in the hands of unsuspecting collectors and sellers. Edited by eggplant
01/13/2018 3:20 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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$5 for both sounds pretty reasonable?
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Bought a few at a coin store today.spent 15$ for 8 coins.think I did well.nicely priced.was ganna buy a 1995 doubled die penny ms graded for $50 but not shure want to pay that much. What do you think?
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Pillar of the Community
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Amber it would depend on what company graded it and what the grade is.
That would determine a market price. Perhaps an MS-67 graded by NGC or PCGS would
be in that $50 range.
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Bedrock of the Community
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They look legit to me, and the price sounds very attractive - congrats!
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Pillar of the Community
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The first coin appears to be a 1997. It has the Close AM reverse. The second coin looks like a 1964. They both are genuine mint errors. Good buy!  |
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I can't say I've ever seen a fake error coin before. I've seen plenty, here's a common fake error I see all the time....   |
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Great buys for those two. But Bobby is right. There are plenty of fake errors out there.
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There are plenty of fake errors out there I see a few people have now mentioned the existence of fake off-struck error coins. Are there any tell-tale signs? |
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I see a few people have now mentioned the existence of fake off-struck error coins. Are there any tell-tale signs? My #1 tell-tale sign is finding identical error coins listed for sale in unlimited quantities on one particular non-U.S. website. I'm not condemning that entire site and I won't mention its name here because CCF probably doesn't want to host trash talk about other sites. Let me just say that the site I'm referring to is A*********, it is a giant online retail service made up of small businesses in C**** and elsewhere offering products to international online buyers. Finding dirt cheap unmarked 'replica' coins there removes any doubt if it matches one you are investigating. Without this kind of easy evidence, identifying fakes can be much tougher. There are books on the subject and maybe articles/discussions elsewhere on this forum (I'm ignorant, just got here!) Let me add that one thing working in favor of die struck error collectors is that genuine errors are rarely identical so they tend to be easy to distinguish from one another without magnification. Large quantities of identical errors raises red flags pretty quick. In contrast, non-error coins are largely similar and harder to distinguish from one another (experts and magnification excluded), making it easier for the counterfeiters to pass off their junk in larger quantities for a longer period of time. Edited by eggplant
01/13/2018 7:56 pm
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