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Valued Member
United States
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I've been seeing a lot of these, a bunch of junk coins surrounding a valuable piece, as if the seller cleaned out a junk drawer and doesn't know what he has.. https://www.ebay.com/itm/1795-FLOWI...202707406018This same seller earlier on sold a lot much like this (too far back to link to it), 1795 half with a bunch of common/poor junk halves. It even had the same "clasp" round mark at the top. To the skeptic, this looks like a method for distracting from a counterfeit, or providing plausible deniability. What do you think? |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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For that much money the coin(s) better be slabbed.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4212 Posts |
You'd think they'd provide rev. images, not just for varieties sake,
but for authenticity. I'm calling bogus.
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Valued Member
 United States
416 Posts |
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For that much money the coin(s) better be slabbed. Slabbed that coin would be well over a grand. It is currently $470 (and that doesn't include the distraction pieces, which I am not worried about). Really, at the heart of it, this is a simple matter of slabbed >>>> unslabbed in price, given "equal" coins, but if the thing isn't authentic, then it's not really "equal" now is it :) There should be a whole subforum on this site: "Is it real?" |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I do not believe that there is a pony in that pile.
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
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Looks perfectly legitimate to me . He states the Coin was once slabbed as plugged .
Hardly anything nefarious . You see bucket loads of these type of lots in many English and European Auction
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Pillar of the Community
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This same seller earlier on sold a lot much like this (too far back to link to it), 1795 half with a bunch of common/poor junk halves. This is just his sellimg MO. He cracks-out a rare key-date coin and surrounds it with cull coins in a lot.  |
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United States
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Yea that one! It even had the same "not actually plugged just a clasp mark" description. I was tempted on that one, and I am tempted on this one too. Quote:
I do not believe that there is a pony in that pile. Pony? Do you mean phony? This is all fine if the coins are genuine, but why wouldn't he at least keep some record of the slabs? |
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Posted 06/20/2019 2:57 pm
