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  • coinguy89coinguy89 Posts: 2,151
    At first glanced it looked cleaned. That's not a coin a first time seller should be putting up though, especially at that high of a price.
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  • kamehameha00kamehameha00 Posts: 2,077
    Seated Dollar + RAW + eBay + 0 Feedback user with the word "pawnshop" in name = Counterfeit.
  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,660 ✭✭✭✭✭
    oh, it's a fake allright.

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  • Crazy4CoinsCrazy4Coins Posts: 1,922 ✭✭✭
    That was my first thought as well....
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  • airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,147 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Counterfeit--if nothing else, that is one helluva doubled die, and it ain't in the red book...
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  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    It's got the dig across the shield on the obv, I believe that's a diagnostic for some counterfeits
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  • longtimecollectorlongtimecollector Posts: 2,368 ✭
    100 % fake
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  • CoppernicusCoppernicus Posts: 1,764 ✭
    COIN IS IN GOOD CONDITION UNITED HAS BEEN DOUBLE STAMPED.2005 OFFICIAL RED BOOK OF COINS SAYS IT IS WORTH $30,000.00 IN MINT CONDITION. THIS COIN IS IN APPROXIMATELY 70% TO 80% CONDITION. THERE WAS 110,600 MINTED

    So let's see, 70-80% condition would be XF49-AU56? It'd be interesting to know what he lent on it when it was pawned.

    FAKE!!!!

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  • anoldgoatanoldgoat Posts: 1,493 ✭✭✭
    Deffinately fake. The obverse is larger than the reverse.
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  • RyanaRyana Posts: 247
    The crappy rims are a good tipoff that it is a cast POS.


    I've looked around the Seated Dollars category on Ebay several times and I can tell you that there are more fakes than genuine coins. I think in a way it is a testament to the relative scarcity of these issues. A lot were melted, a lot were exported and melted, and not a lot were minted to begin with. There were no bags of them around like there were Morgans as far as I know.
  • Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭
    The obverse die with the gouge through the shield and the reverse die with the massive doubling of United are both well known as counterfeit dies. The gouged obverse "hub" is known for many dates and that doubled reverse die I believe is also found on multiple dates. But I think it is most common dated 1846.

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