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1845-O $5 is this a fake?

goldisgoodgoldisgood Posts: 173
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1845-O $5

This one looks suspect to me.

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  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,419 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Looks good to me.
    Andy Lustig

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  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,800 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Looks real to me. Cleaned and VF-20 details, but real.

    TRC:

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    Ebay:

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    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
  • goldisgoodgoldisgood Posts: 173
    OK I was thinking the washed out look, flat details, wide rim, deformed denticals all kinda looked like a cast fake to me. Another coin ruined by cleaning then. What a waste.
  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,419 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This coin has not been cleaned badly, much less ruined. Go bid on it or I will.
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
  • Cam40Cam40 Posts: 8,146 ✭
    chocolate!
    image
  • ReeceReece Posts: 378 ✭✭✭
    Never buy a raw coin an Ebay, please repeat this two hundred times until it sinks in!!image
    RWK
  • FrankcoinsFrankcoins Posts: 4,572 ✭✭✭


    << <i>This coin has not been cleaned badly, much less ruined. Go bid on it or I will. >>



    I outbid Andy...
    Frank Provasek - PCGS Authorized Dealer, Life Member ANA, Member TNA. www.frankcoins.com
  • AlixTCatAlixTCat Posts: 1,276


    << <i>Never buy a raw coin an Ebay, please repeat this two hundred times until it sinks in!!image >>



    I've bought quite a few raw coins on eBay and been quite pleased. I've not been ripped off and coins all went into slabs at the grade sold as. I've bought 5-6 gold coins on eBay with no problems either. Whether or not anyone believes it, there really ARE people dying all the time and their relatives sell their coins on eBay. Most are not the "LQQK!!!!" or "ESTATE!!! SALE!!!" auctions either. Those usually ARE rip offs.

    YMMV though. But you can't condemn the whole eBay just because some people are not as well versed in buying raw coins as others. Usually the folks who get ripped don't look for the tell-tale signs. Many people don't even use toolhaus.org to research the seller's feedback. I'm not saying people get what they deserve, just that they need to take care in what they buy.

    Jonathan
    I have been a collector for over mumbly-five years. I learn something new every day.
  • goldisgoodgoldisgood Posts: 173


    << <i>This coin has not been cleaned badly, much less ruined. Go bid on it or I will. >>



    Not buying just looking.
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,888 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>1845-O $5 is this a fake? >>

    If so, it would fool me.

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  • constructconstruct Posts: 932
    The chances of finding a counterfeit circulated pre-1880 branch mint half eagle are quite slim to start with. Further, I would expect to see raised blemishes on a cast counterfeit which I don't see on this piece. The wear also looks real. For these reasons, I think the coin is genuine.

    I agree with the grade of VF-20.
    The strangest things seem suddenly routine.
  • 09sVDB09sVDB Posts: 2,420 ✭✭✭
    As for buying raw coins on Ebay, I would agree unless the seller is know to you or its under an amount you don't mind parting with.
  • Derek2100Derek2100 Posts: 248
    heavily worn but no fake
  • goldisgoodgoldisgood Posts: 173


    << <i> TRC:

    image

    RYK - I like yours a lot better image

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