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NEW COIN DOCTOR ON EBAY.

Louis76Louis76 Posts: 14
in Buy, Sell, & Trade - U.S. Coins
I was cruising around on ebay looking at going prices for some things and found an 1855 Three Dollar Gold piece. I was pretty excited until I took a closer look and realized that the detail was too deep in the hair just below Liberty's headdress. So, I did a search for completed items and Lo and Behold, the person selling the coin had bought it as about an XF just a few days ago. Here's the links for the items if anyone's interested in doing a stare/compare. I'd be interested to know what everyone else thinks.
How he bought it.
How he's selling it.

Comments

  • greghansengreghansen Posts: 4,301 ✭✭✭
    I can't make them out to be the same coin...so I'll wait for other posts to point out markers that make them the same. The main markers I see on each coin, I can't seem to find on the other.image It's late. My 4 a.m. eyes may not be working too good.

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  • ERER Posts: 7,345 ✭
    Why would any sane-minded person buy a raw gold coin on fleabay?
  • Dukie101Dukie101 Posts: 1,313 ✭
    Why would any sane-minded person buy a raw gold coin on fleabay?

    I agree,especially on a $3. Coin appears to be the same one to me.Hair lines smooth on original coin or blured?
    Larry
  • Coinhusker1Coinhusker1 Posts: 3,560 ✭
    He tooled it. Bastage!! image
  • skate4357skate4357 Posts: 325
    It looks like he dipped it to remove the spot on the reverse. You all know when you wash your hair and remove the oils and dirt it gives it more body.(bag)
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  • ianpianp Posts: 119
    All for $20...image
  • telecointelecoin Posts: 191 ✭
    It is not the same coin. The coin dew111 bought has nice even denticals on the obverse. The one he is selling has uneven denticals with an obvious protruding area at 5 o'clock. See picture with area circled. Perhaps he bought the Aboncom coin to replace a conterfeit coin (that he is now selling) in his collection(?). The $3.00 gold series is heavily conterfeited. Dew111 seems to be a heavy buyer of gold coins. Aboncom has sold four of these 1855 $3.00 gold coins recently and 3 of the 4 coins have this dentical abnormality (fakes?). Any gold experts out there who may know about this?
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  • Louis76Louis76 Posts: 14
    Thank you for pointing that out telecoin, but the hair detail below the headdress still looks a little exaggerated to me for an UNC $3 Princess.
  • michaelmichael Posts: 9,524 ✭✭
    WELL THIS IS AFTER THE FACT BUT I THINK IT IS NOT THE SAME COIN

    michael
  • sonofagunksonofagunk Posts: 1,349 ✭✭
    Either way he is still shilling. The "high bidder" only bids on this guy's coins.

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  • nankrautnankraut Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭
    If it's gold, if it's not slabbed by pcgs/ngc/anacs, I don't even look at it. The end.....
    BTW, I think the second coin is a counterfeit.
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  • traderdavetraderdave Posts: 86
    In the picture telecoin posted of the "dew" coin, the crown looks odd to me. Isn't the crown supposed to have jewels ALL the way along the bottom edge? There's a gap where the hair sticks out like the crown was missing some Jewels. image
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  • gripgrip Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The strangest thing to me is;the spit curl (for lack of better word) above the ear,it's more pronounced on the worn one
    and totaly diffierent than the other.
    Al
  • Louis76Louis76 Posts: 14
    I got curious about the jewels around the bottom of the crown too, so I went and looked at some examples on Heritagecoins.com. The answer is, no, the jewels aren't supposed to go all the way around the bottom, at least from what I've seen.
  • coinvac41coinvac41 Posts: 130 ✭
    Great pic's telecoin. I don't know squat about grading but I did notice a rim dig at 4 o'clock
    on the dew1111 coin that is not on the aboncom coin. I would be suspicious of a coin type
    that is so often turns out to be counterfit.image
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  • AZseniorAZsenior Posts: 20
    They are not the same coin. The one mark on the bought coin has a nick on the rim at "5 oclock" does not appear on the coin offered for sale. That nick could not be easly removed from the the bought coin. Since I don't buy or sell coins as yet I am just an impartial observer with some experience in matching items that are very small.
  • sonofagunksonofagunk Posts: 1,349 ✭✭
    almost ever coin he posts, jremo7 is just waiting to bid on within 1/2 hour of the posting.
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