REAL OR FAKE

rd5425

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What do you guys think?

airplanenut

The color looks weird--- but then again, all of his scans do... that coin should be in a slab, so I would consider it counterfeit for the purpose of buying it online.

Jeremy

coppercoins

Either fake or very harshly cleaned. That thing looks like lead!

gmarguli

Come on people. This is billings13 you're talking about. He couldn't get this coin into an ACG or NTC slab. Doesn't that say something to you?

clw54

I wonder if anybody has ever bought something from one of these is-it-real-or-is-it-counterfeit auctions and gotten the real thing.

Dog97

The million dollar ??:
Why isn't it in a slab?
The seller is an ACG/NTC/PCI dealer so it should be easy to get it into a slab.
Mkaes you wonder, huh?

JLW

I had this on my watch list as our local club is going to have a meeting dedicated to counterfeits and our president asked anyone who could bring counterfeit coin(s) in to do so and they would be discussed. I thought if I could pick one or two up for $15.00-$20.00 it would be worth it for the education value. The last time I checked this auction it was at $75.00 (already very stupid money) so I deleted it at that point. Let's see, it looks funky, it's not slabbed, and the seller says it's probably counterfeit. I think I'll watch it close just so I can see how ridiculously high it will go.
Joe

dragon

gmarguli and Dog are absolutely correct (as usual), I think someone is gonna be really disappointed with that coin, especially at THAT price.

dragon

shllyshny

Don't look now, but that thing's up to $255.

braddick

Yep. One guarantee on eBay. If a Seller asks if it's counterfeit- it's counterfeit.

Mike921

I think however buys it at that price knows what they are getting into. I think this person will try to resell it as genuine, to some other person, who doesn't know better.

relayer

But he's not sure it's a counterfeit. If there was only some way he could find out?

mr1931S

He does offer a return privilege.The only problem with that is that i would have to remove the coin from it's package to do my testing for authenticity and to do so is instant void of return privilege.Looks like a cast counterfeit to me.

Coppernicus

I am not a Merc collector, but how naive can people be?

I have one question (which, within, contains my comment!): Why isn't it slabbed?

'nuf said....

Coppernicus