Possible fake Morgan dollars from China
Glen2022
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Saw eBay listing for 1897S Morgan dollar, claims to be brilliant uncirculated, asking $40, plus postage or best offer. Some negative feedback indicating coins are counterfeit. Has already sold 10 (and no doubt some of these will be resold as genuine by the buyers on eBay, or elsewhere). I did not see a stamp "copy" anywhere on the coin.
I am not sufficiently comfortable with looking at photos and deciding the coin is fake. I think the link to that listing is below, but I'm not real computer literate so I'm not sure that the link is accurate.
I've seen several other similar listings of Morgan dollars as well.
Please, beware if my suspicions are correct.
Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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Please post the images instead of the link just in case it gets taken down and the forum members cannot comment on it.
"When in doubt...don't."
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Counterfeits, both listed and already sold. Reported.
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@Glen2022
There is no Santa Claus in numismatics. That's a nice looking coin but If the price is too good to be true there is something wrong 99% of the time.
The seller already has a couple of negatives feedbacks for selling Chinese counterfeits.
OMG, just look at the "Similar Sponsored Items" - There's no stopping this. Time for eBay to clean up their act. I expect less from Facebook and their limitless fake coin ads but this is eBay's business. Enough!
Mark
The seller is in China. 🇨🇳
Yup. Now you can buy directly from the source and cut out the middleman.
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"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
This is becoming all to common.
If it's to good to be true it probably is.
I buy only slabbed coins now. I know there are counterfeit slabs to but at least we can spot them.
It's the uneducated that I feel bad for.
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Reported last night and got an email from eBay saying they found nothing wrong with listing
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I don't think it's a nice looking coin (or a well-made copy).
Mark Feld* of Heritage Auctions*Unless otherwise noted, my posts here represent my personal opinions.
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