1903 mckinley $1 gold was it a bargin???
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off ebay at $360 bin...was it a good buy or not what say you???
this guy also has what looks like a sweet deal on a 1882 $3 only reason i say that is it is a coin i owned along time ago and know it's low mintage in the $3. series
anyways...here's the ebay auction
$1. mckinley
this guy also has what looks like a sweet deal on a 1882 $3 only reason i say that is it is a coin i owned along time ago and know it's low mintage in the $3. series
anyways...here's the ebay auction
$1. mckinley
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<< <i>Was the "omega man" an ebay seller? >>
He was a counterfeiter. He marked his coins with a microscopic greek letter omega---hence the name given to him. His two most produced coins was the high relief MCMVII Saint (the omega was within the eagle's talons) and the 1882 gold $3 (the omega was within the loop of the R in LIBERTY).
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<< <i>The McKinley looks fake to me. The rims are too broad and the portrait too flat.
What he said......
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Hope it looks great in hand and is the real deal.
bob
upon looking at many other images it seems that these lil pieces had many strike issues and rims are all over the place on these too
but i'd listen to any diagnostics checks someone has to cough up here...sincerely
and hopefully this is not yet another tuition i've to pay
An authentic US gold coin will normally show die polish lines in those hard to get to places such as around the date numerals. A complete absence of these on a coin would bother me. So would raised dots or blobs and raised tooling marks (ie scratches in the counterfeiter's die). Thirdly, the luster of fakes has a sort of odd grainy texture that doesn't flow well. The luster looks more like it was machined (like the bottom of your cooking pans) than struck (swirling/curving/patches of flow lines).
One forum member sent me a fake BU $10 Indian. It exhibited all the characteristics noted above and was promptely returned with money refunded.
roadrunner
unless it doesn't have die polish lines and a grainy look about it...
then i got yet another mess to get out of or man up on as yet more tuition paid
with fingers crossed his 100% f/b is a concern he addresses
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<< <i>i'll report back and hopefully as it made it into plastic too...sadly if it doesn't...
unless it doesn't have die polish lines and a grainy look about it...
then i got yet another mess to get out of or man up on as yet more tuition paid
with fingers crossed his 100% f/b is a concern he addresses >>
I think you can get him to refund your money if it is indeed counterfeit, I had the same thing happen to me and months later when I told him(not this seller) about it he said return it for a full refund.
If he doesn't I would think you have recourse through ebay as not as described(counterfeit)
<< <i>i'll report back and hopefully as it made it into plastic too...sadly if it doesn't...
unless it doesn't have die polish lines and a grainy look about it...
then i got yet another mess to get out of or man up on as yet more tuition paid
with fingers crossed his 100% f/b is a concern he addresses >>
Slabbing this coin would be a waste of money.
You have at least 3 very experience numismatists telling you this coin is fake. I would return it ASAP and inform the seller you had a dealer tell you it was fake.
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thanx to the crew here...now if the seller plays nice or not i'll see
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
<< <i>I agree with the few, I am about 95% sure the 03 is not genuine based on what I see in the photo! >>
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<< <i>Was the "omega man" an ebay seller? >>
He was a counterfeiter. He marked his coins with a microscopic greek letter omega---hence the name given to him. His two most produced coins was the high relief MCMVII Saint (the omega was within the eagle's talons) and the 1882 gold $3 (the omega was within the loop of the R in LIBERTY). >>
Thanks...ditn'd know that
thanx to the crew here>>
Good move. It is easier to back out before paying.
thanx to the crew here...now if the seller plays nice or not i'll see>>
I think thats probably the smart move on this one. Errrrr on the sie of caution. Even though its not a major $$$ coin, why take the chance and risk having your hobby become an a$$ache?
Also looking for VF-EF Seated halves.
Sell me your old auction catalogs...
People who are interested in buying raw U. S. gold should, at the very least, invest in two books first:
"Lonesome John" (John Devine)/Detecting Counterfeit Gold Coins Book 2. This paperback is out of print, but still available from numismatic book dealers.
Bill Fivaz/United Stated Gold Counterfeit Detection Guide. This $20 spiral-bound book has great photographs, including ones of counterfeit McKinley gold commems.