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New Member
Lebanon
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Hi, new here, I just bought this though not sure if it's real or fake. I've attached the photos for reference Also, can you please inform me of the value regardless of the outcome?   Thanks in advance |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4963 Posts |
 This is unfortunately one of the many, many modern fakes on the market. It might be worth a buck or two as an example. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4692 Posts |
Fake. I give it no value.
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Moderator
 United States
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@lep, first welcome to CCF. Second, while I don't disagree that this isn't a real 1799 US Dollar, can you please share whether it is attracted to a magnet and what the weight is? Thx.
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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And please rotate and enlarge your images - you'll get more replies.  to the CCF! |
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
21606 Posts |
to the CCF Question: Why would you buy a valuable coin without checking it out first. All you have to do is compare yours against the picture of a genuine coin to see that it is not close. That is a four figure coin if genuine, hope you didn't pay near that for it. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Welcome to the forum. Hopefully you didn't pay too much, or can get your money back.
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Valued Member
United States
421 Posts |
Hope you didn't pay a lot for it definitely is a fake hopefully you can get your money back best thing to do when you are buying a coin like this is to get one already graded they fake these so bad.
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New Member
 Lebanon
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Thanks all for your help, I'm really grateful that so many of you responded. The coin is attracted to magnets and weighs 17.6g, so confirms it's a pretty bad fake as well. I did pay 500$ for a set of coins which all unfortunately were fake. So am pretty disappointed. The bad thing is I can't even return them, it was on fb marketplace which is sketchy in its nature. I guess it's just a very expensive lesson for me I was thinking of maybe selling them on ebay for maybe 5$ each explicitly stating they're counterfeit (there are 30 coins) to recoup some of my loss. Do you think this would be good or would it attract the wrong crowd (i.e. people who might buy them to just con others) as if it's the latter I'd just not sell if you get me. |
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Forum Dad
United States
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Quote:I was thinking of maybe selling them on ebay for maybe 5$ each explicitly stating they're counterfeit (there are 30 coins) to recoup some of my loss. Not allowed, ebay will remove it. |
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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You cannot sell them on ebay. It is against their policy to sell counterfeit or replica coins. Next time please do your homework before purchasing coins. Bobby beat me to it but the same answer Edited by JimmyD
04/24/2021 7:29 pm
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Valued Member
United States
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I would keep them for examples of fakes so when you look at other coins you can compare the details so you don't have to go through that again. That's bad you can't get your money back. I wouldn't deal with Facebook marketplace, Craigslist, ebay is ok but you have to careful I would buy graded coins because there is good amount of fakes on there as well they list them as the real deal. Edited by Matthew23
04/24/2021 7:47 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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That's unfortunate and as you stated, an expensive lesson. By all means, post your possible purchases here first before buying. You'll get quite k responses as you saw here. It's probably futile, but I would at least attempt to contact the seller, if they haven't disappeared already. They probably knew exactly what they were doing. If they know how to use FB marketplace, they know how to google the value of a coin like this. They would not have let it go so cheap in this day and age. If it's too good to be true......... Edit: to CCF Edited by Ty2020b
04/24/2021 7:57 pm
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United States
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to the Community! |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Why not start a fake coin collection. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3343 Posts |
Maybe this guy will buy them, to add variety to his display case.  "Two minutes ago I would have sold my chances for a tired dime." Fred Astaire
Edited by thq
04/25/2021 4:32 pm
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Posted 04/24/2021 1:46 pm
