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United States
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Valued Member
United States
247 Posts |
An obvious counterfeit as the date and lettering are all wrong.
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Valued Member
United States
171 Posts |
I contacted the seller and invited him here. But yes, I concur that it is a counterfeit. Lettering and numbers aren't even, and the stars don't seem quite right....
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Valued Member
United States
171 Posts |
I bet this is an old counterfeit though... I think it would be cool to collect as an old counterfeit piece.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Date gives it up immediately. Agree with Captain Jack, if it's an original old counterfeit item, it would be good to have in a collection.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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My only question would be, why fake a common date?
Unless it's not even silver.
Or maybe it was done for practice.
The date sure sticks out like a sore thumb.
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Rest in Peace
United States
17900 Posts |
I hope no one could be fooled by that terrible fake attempt.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3342 Posts |
It's so fake that it's funny. I wonder what the point of the gold plating was. The lettering looks like it was engraved by a second grader. AMERICA is outrageously bad.
Swamperbob has some Mexico pieces that have mysterious spellings, but this one is pretty good.
"Two minutes ago I would have sold my chances for a tired dime." Fred Astaire
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10/24/2019 5:44 pm
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Valued Member
United States
171 Posts |
Again, I think it's an old counterfeit, probably some sort of cheap metal silver plated originally? 50 cents in 1878 was probably worth $10-15 in todays money I bet....
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Valued Member
United States
171 Posts |
Seller responded to me: Yes, thank you for your email. We have already TAKEN THE LISTING DOWN. We failed to show the coin to our in house dealer before putting it on line.
It is never our intent to sell counterfeit coins or currency; this one just got by us. My husband new immediately when I showed it to him after another eBayer contacted us.
We recent purchased a dealer's inventory and there were plenty of bad coins and currency in it but this one got by us.
Thank you again for your "HEADS UP".
Melody & Ronald Winter
Winter Coins
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I think this one is most likely a contemporary counterfeit. It's hard to believe, but there are people who collect them.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I agree that it's a contemporary counterfeit. It is collectible and I would love to see an XRF done on it to analyze the composition of the alloy; i'd bet on brass with a silver wash that has mostly been rubbed off.
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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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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A bad counterfeit. Made to look old, but a bad job at it.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Nice to see that they were at least honest in the response. Which leads me to believe they would also on the sale should it happen. In my book, unless you work for a third party grader, no one is perfect at distinguishing a fake from real. Fine people to me.
ANA member - PAN Member - BCCS Member There are no problems only solutions - the late, great John Lennon
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