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1943-D copper cent on ebay - what makes it fake?

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  • IkesTIkesT Posts: 3,130 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 24, 2024 11:59AM

    Looks wholly counterfeit; the reverse detail in particular is all mush.


  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,327 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 24, 2024 11:58AM

    I believe that some one is gonna be totally bummed out and with 25 bids. Hard pass here
    If by chance it is, God bless them 🙏

  • knovak1976knovak1976 Posts: 402 ✭✭✭✭

    No returns and it’s listed as “uncirculated.” Hmmmmmm……

  • ifthevamzarockinifthevamzarockin Posts: 8,865 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The 4 prong gasket looks like the ones used in the counterfeit PCGS holders from overseas.
    Good chance this coin was cracked out of a counterfeit holder and the coin & gasket was placed in an air-tite.

  • dcarrdcarr Posts: 8,460 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Not an altered date, and not genuine.

  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 33,069 ✭✭✭✭✭

    PCGS CoinFacts coin

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  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 33,069 ✭✭✭✭✭

    listing of counterfeit

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  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 33,069 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 24, 2024 3:01PM

    this is just a start

    lincoln shouldn't be smiling

    the nose is pointed

    the W in "WE" is wrong

    the letters in liberty are different sizes and the Y has branches that are to wide

    on the reverse, the letters of US of A are comically shaped

    this is a die struck counterfeit

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  • ConnecticoinConnecticoin Posts: 12,840 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 24, 2024 5:06PM

    @MsMorrisine said:
    this is just a start

    this is a die struck counterfeit

    That’s what I think. The shape of “1943-D” looks close to genuine, but a bit “off”, especially the “D”.

    I just wonder where these things come from —- China? Also how do they simulate “circulation” - transfer die from a circulated 43-D steel cent?

  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,132 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Key date US coins including 1943 copper cents are currently being struck in China. Since 1943 cents are steel, they can be hardened and then used as hubs to create false dies.

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  • OAKSTAROAKSTAR Posts: 7,166 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Someone thinks it's real. And the rest of his listings are 4 and 5 dollar pieces of junk!

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  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 9,102 ✭✭✭✭✭

    From the same distance away between a genuine and the coin in question, the eye is what looks odd to me.

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  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 33,069 ✭✭✭✭✭

    i noticed that, too, after posting. it's the eyelids

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  • 124Spider124Spider Posts: 938 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 24, 2024 8:39PM

    Bizarre in every way.

    It has been bid high enough that someone belives it's a genuine bronze 1943-D Lincoln cent. But absolutely nobody could believe that a genuine one would be for sale on eBay. And would not be certified by a reputable TPG.

  • ifthevamzarockinifthevamzarockin Posts: 8,865 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Reported

  • oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 12,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If it was real, it would be in a TPG slab.

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  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 33,069 ✭✭✭✭✭

    reported, but still there

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  • ifthevamzarockinifthevamzarockin Posts: 8,865 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Reply from ebay about my report.

    "We looked into your report and didn’t find the listing to be in violation of our policy. This determination was made by a customer service agent."

  • 124Spider124Spider Posts: 938 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ifthevamzarockin said:
    Reply from ebay about my report.

    "We looked into your report and didn’t find the listing to be in violation of our policy. This determination was made by a customer service agent."

    Because fake coins make them money. So they have a "customer service agent," who knows nothing about coins, make the decision.

  • ifthevamzarockinifthevamzarockin Posts: 8,865 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 26, 2024 9:03AM

    Still active :/

    Attn: @burfle23

  • ConnecticoinConnecticoin Posts: 12,840 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Up to $1,125 - ugh.

  • 124Spider124Spider Posts: 938 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Connecticoin said:
    Up to $1,125 - ugh.

    While I wish eBay weren't a disgusting combination of greedy and stupid, I have little sympathy for anyone getting bilked out of real money on this one. To bid that much, one must know that it's a special coin. But then one would know (i) that it's really stupid, given the actual value of the coin, to believe that a genuine one isn't certified, (ii) such a rare, expensive coin would never, ever be on eBay, and (iii) it's worth many multiples of the amounts being bid.

    So anyone still bidding is hoping they're getting a huge bargain; they're just greedy. So it's hard to have any sympathy for them.

  • mr1931Smr1931S Posts: 6,246 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 27, 2024 1:23AM

    @124Spider said:

    @Connecticoin said:
    Up to $1,125 - ugh.

    While I wish eBay weren't a disgusting combination of greedy and stupid, I have little sympathy for anyone getting bilked out of real money on this one. To bid that much, one must know that it's a special coin. But then one would know (i) that it's really stupid, given the actual value of the coin, to believe that a genuine one isn't certified, (ii) such a rare, expensive coin would never, ever be on eBay, and (iii) it's worth many multiples of the amounts being bid.

    So anyone still bidding is hoping they're getting a huge bargain; they're just greedy. So it's hard to have any sympathy for them.

    Trying to save the ebay greedy ones who are ignorant by choice is not the hobby for me either.

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  • IkesTIkesT Posts: 3,130 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @mr1931S said:

    @124Spider said:

    @Connecticoin said:
    Up to $1,125 - ugh.

    While I wish eBay weren't a disgusting combination of greedy and stupid, I have little sympathy for anyone getting bilked out of real money on this one. To bid that much, one must know that it's a special coin. But then one would know (i) that it's really stupid, given the actual value of the coin, to believe that a genuine one isn't certified, (ii) such a rare, expensive coin would never, ever be on eBay, and (iii) it's worth many multiples of the amounts being bid.

    So anyone still bidding is hoping they're getting a huge bargain; they're just greedy. So it's hard to have any sympathy for them.

    Trying to save the ebay greedy ones who are ignorant by choice is not the hobby for me either.

    Totally harsche.

  • knovak1976knovak1976 Posts: 402 ✭✭✭✭

    If the individual mails the item through the USPS to the winner and it is determined to be fake or counterfeit, it could be a federal offense and land the seller in some serious legal jeopardy. However, if the buyer doesn’t have the item authenticated or graded, they may never know they were just ripped off.

  • CRHer700CRHer700 Posts: 1,917 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Does everyone who true to get a bargain a "greedy one"?

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  • GreenstangGreenstang Posts: 1,120 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Reported again.

  • braddickbraddick Posts: 23,980 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @knovak1976 said:
    If the individual mails the item through the USPS to the winner and it is determined to be fake or counterfeit, it could be a federal offense and land the seller in some serious legal jeopardy. However, if the buyer doesn’t have the item authenticated or graded, they may never know they were just ripped off.

    For a conviction the prosecution must prove the seller knew it was a counterfeit as this is a specific intent crime. Good luck proving that and doubly get a district attorney to file charges.

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  • knovak1976knovak1976 Posts: 402 ✭✭✭✭

    @braddick said:
    ………….

    For a conviction the prosecution must prove the seller knew it was a counterfeit as this is a specific intent crime. Good luck proving that and doubly get a district attorney to file charges.

    It has been reported several times. How many warnings do suppose is enough? At this time it appears they (either the seller or eBay) don’t care if they are caught or not. If I was a buyer you can sure as heck believe they’d have something to worry about if I found out it was fake/counterfeit.

  • braddickbraddick Posts: 23,980 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @knovak1976 said:

    @braddick said:
    ………….

    For a conviction the prosecution must prove the seller knew it was a counterfeit as this is a specific intent crime. Good luck proving that and doubly get a district attorney to file charges.

    It has been reported several times. How many warnings do suppose is enough? At this time it appears they (either the seller or eBay) don’t care if they are caught or not. If I was a buyer you can sure as heck believe they’d have something to worry about if I found out it was fake/counterfeit.

    A report to eBay doesn't notify the seller, only ebay unless the reporting party also sends a note to the seller.
    Even in that case, many here and on eBay won't immediately substitute their opinion for yours simply upon your declaration.

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  • ConnecticoinConnecticoin Posts: 12,840 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 27, 2024 9:27AM

    Looks like it got nuked, so we saved some stupid money from getting bilked. Hopefully they pay less “tuition” on run of the mill cleaned coins instead.

  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 33,069 ✭✭✭✭✭

    We looked everywhere.

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  • privatecoinprivatecoin Posts: 3,382 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @MFeld said:
    I reported the listing and eBay replied, stating that they’d removed it.

    Well done sir.

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  • braddickbraddick Posts: 23,980 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @privatecoin said:

    @MFeld said:
    I reported the listing and eBay replied, stating that they’d removed it.

    Well done sir.

    Yeah, sure. But some of us loosened the ketchup bottle a little...

    peacockcoins

  • privatecoinprivatecoin Posts: 3,382 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @braddick said:

    @privatecoin said:

    @MFeld said:
    I reported the listing and eBay replied, stating that they’d removed it.

    Well done sir.

    Yeah, sure. But some of us loosened the ketchup bottle a little...

    I don't doubt that in the slightest.

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  • MFeldMFeld Posts: 13,480 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @braddick said:

    @privatecoin said:

    @MFeld said:
    I reported the listing and eBay replied, stating that they’d removed it.

    Well done sir.

    Yeah, sure. But some of us loosened the ketchup bottle a little...

    For all I know, I was just one of the ones loosening the ketchup bottle for someone else.
    I was surprised to get a response other than that eBay found nothing wrong with the listing.

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  • ifthevamzarockinifthevamzarockin Posts: 8,865 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @MFeld said:

    @braddick said:

    @privatecoin said:

    @MFeld said:
    I reported the listing and eBay replied, stating that they’d removed it.

    Well done sir.

    Yeah, sure. But some of us loosened the ketchup bottle a little...

    For all I know, I was just one of the ones loosening the ketchup bottle for someone else.
    I was surprised to get a response other than that eBay found nothing wrong with the listing.

    Or not get another warning about reporting too many counterfeits. ;)

  • mr1931Smr1931S Posts: 6,246 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @IkesT said:
    Looks wholly counterfeit; the reverse detail in particular is all mush.


    I concur. Looks like it came out of a crackerjack box.

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