An "uncirculated" 1795 flowing hair dollar in China largest auction house website

jcping

Just take a look this one 1795 3 leaves dollar.
Could this be a real one
US$1500 for a BU 1795 dollar is cheap

cointagious

The coin looks right. Could be one heck of a buy.

7summits

??? Uncirculated ???

Did you read this at the bottom of the listing? - "American Silver Coin, 1795, extremely precious, XF-AU"

Here's a version partly in English:

Link

"not with a 10 foot pole"

roadrunner

Looks killer. Wish I were there.....assuming it's real and for sale.

roadrunner

ER

Very convincing looking B-5 BB-27 variety. BUT, it's raw and from China, who wants to take a chance.
Doesn't look like a cast counterfeit, but could very well be a high quality die transfer fake.

jcping

There are also some 1804 dollars with such quality

ER

Any other thoughts?

mrearlygold

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Yes,



Ok?

ER

Good thought, Tom.

mrearlygold

<< <i>Good thought, Tom. >>








I mean, how serious could anyone take such a thing?

Its pretty funny

Tom

northcoin

Other thougts? Yeah, wish they had located a hoard of 1794's so I could afford one to complete my registry early dollar set by years.

northcoin

ttt for the morning crew

DeepCoin

It looks like an original cast dollar to me. Who wouldnt want one of these??? You can put it next to your nice chinese Trade dollar in your set.

BillJones

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Who says if you win the bid that you will receive THAT COIN if it is real? It would not be the first time that somebody sold a coin on eBay with a “generic” photo. I'm not big on these international transactions where the legal remedies are nebulous to say the least.

jcping

This is not an ebay seller. The auction house did about US$100M dollar auction a year. I believe if you win and you pay, you will get the coin. Whether the coin is a real one or not, it is a different story

VTCoins

Coin sold for $30,600 including Buyers Premium.

roadrunner

Looks like someone thought it was real...and one heck of an XF/AU.

Sotheby's graded the same way back in the 1980's. I recall going to only one auction there for a half dime collection. I bought one lot of combined coins where they were called from VF to EF...and all were choice to near gem. I paid through the nose for those XF's!
I also bought an 1850-0 that was a single lot to my recollection. That too was called XF but CHOICE. I'll say. It slabbed out NGC65 back in 1988. I like the English grading system but not the prices they bring!

roadrunner

VTCoins

I was one of the under bidders on this coin. I guessing someone must have representatives in Beijing that saw the coin in person.

Hopefully we'll see the coin come up for sale so that we can know the actual grade of the coin. Knowing my luck, it will be an MS65!

roadrunner

From the photos I'd say the coin was a 63 or better. The strike is exceptional too. It would be nice to see it show up again.

roadrunner

VTCoins

I thought it had a definite chance at being uncirculated, but I bid on it with a worst case AU58 details cleaned price level.

Would have loved to see it in person.

nwcs

As someone else said, how do you know *that* is the coin you'll get?

VTCoins

They are a very reputable auction gallery in China. I had absolutely no doubts that the coin pictured is the coin I would have got.

JadeRareCoin

I did not see this thread until today but, coincidentally, we had placed a bid of $26,000 through one of our Chinese coin dealer contacts. Looks like we lost by one increment. That would have put us into the coin at $29,900. The coin is a solid AU and has been off of the market for 80 years or so. Damn......

tradedollarnut

VTCoins

I did my bid over the phone at 3:40 AM EST.