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MillertimeMillertime Posts: 2,048 ✭✭
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Is this Trade Dollar on eBay legit?

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  • tightbudgettightbudget Posts: 7,299 ✭✭✭
    It's legitimately out of China...

    Hence it's fake.
  • ChrisRxChrisRx Posts: 5,619 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>You have successfully submitted a report.

    We appreciate you taking the time to file this report. eBay will investigate to determine resolution. >>

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  • commoncents05commoncents05 Posts: 10,096 ✭✭✭
    Fake coin & slab.

    -Paul
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  • COALPORTERCOALPORTER Posts: 2,900 ✭✭
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  • DUIGUYDUIGUY Posts: 7,252 ✭✭✭
    Mush Mellons are more real.image
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  • GoldbullyGoldbully Posts: 17,987 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Is this Trade Dollar on eBay legit?

    Millertime >>



    CaChink!!!
  • NHSBaseballNHSBaseball Posts: 2,470 ✭
    But--- the sellers name is "sincerity".



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  • illini420illini420 Posts: 11,467 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Not sure why you'd even need to ask being that the seller has zero feedback and more importantly is from China. Scary how it looks so real though. Not sure why PCGS isn't trying to force eBay to take action on this. I mean eBay is clearly facilitating the sale of knock-offs of their brand. The companies in the fashion industry didn't put up with that.

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  • GrumpyEdGrumpyEd Posts: 4,749 ✭✭✭
    Wow 12 brave bidders already!

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    Ed
  • GrumpyEdGrumpyEd Posts: 4,749 ✭✭✭
    I thought there's an ebay rule that they must show the entire holder and cert number?

    Ed
  • robkoolrobkool Posts: 5,934 ✭✭✭✭✭
    There are plenty of those to go around these dayz...
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  • SeaEagleCoinsSeaEagleCoins Posts: 3,262 ✭


    << <i>Fake coin & slab.

    -Paul >>




    Paul...There is no question about the coin being "questionable"...image

    However...after taking a close look at the pic...it looks like the seller got hold of a legit slab and carefully cut out the center area and has placed the coin in the now missing area. Notice that there is no plastic in between the coin and the camera... and there is a slight roughness to the plastic edge and no sign of the gasket at the coin's rim...

    At least, that's how it looks to me...

    But I do wonder, "Millertime"... what have you been drinking? ... that you would even be considering a coin (and a Trade Dollar of all things) from China...

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    ...either you are(were) drunk or very bored...image

    ...or maybe you are(were) just up too late... image
    Re: Slabbed coins - There are some coins that LIVE within clear plastic and wear their labels with pride... while there are others that HIDE behind scratched plastic and are simply dragged along by a label. Then there are those coins that simply hang out, naked and free image
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,897 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Wow 12 brave bidders already!

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    Brave or stupid? image


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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,813 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Wow 12 brave bidders already!

    image >>



    Brave or stupid? image >>



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  • lkeigwinlkeigwin Posts: 16,894 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes, scary how good these counterfeits look.

    All the alarms are going off...location, feedback number, poor pix, censored cert#. And still 23+ bidders and bids over $400.

    Why would a deceitful seller clip the cert# anyway? You'd think duplicating a real one would be more convincing and not that hard?
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  • anablepanablep Posts: 5,160 ✭✭✭✭✭
    25 bidders now...
    Always looking for attractive rim toned Morgan and Peace dollars in PCGS or (older) ANA/ANACS holders!

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  • ChrisRxChrisRx Posts: 5,619 ✭✭✭✭
    To whomever wins this thing..

    "YA BIG DUMMY!!!"
    -Fred Sandford.
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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I cannot imagine anyone even bidding... and yet, they do. Cheers, RickO
  • ebaytraderebaytrader Posts: 3,312 ✭✭✭
    The description is copied from a B&M auction




    << <i>With frosty surfaces and a minimal number of minor abrasions, this coin comes highly recommended for inclusion in a Mint State type set. Rather well produced for a business strike Trade Dollar, the definition is sharp in virtually all areas on both the obverse and the reverse. Minimally toned, and actually presenting as brilliant at the most direct angles.
    Cert Number: please email advice, very happy for you! >>


  • ebaytraderebaytrader Posts: 3,312 ✭✭✭
    As an aside, I read something totally unsubstantiated at this point but troubling nontheless, that sellers in China get free listings. image
  • MFHMFH Posts: 11,720 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Fake coin & slab.

    -Paul >>



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  • GrumpyEdGrumpyEd Posts: 4,749 ✭✭✭
    Free probably means we pay for it there if we list things here.

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    Ed
  • garsmithgarsmith Posts: 5,894 ✭✭
    The coin is an obvious fake; the slab could fool some people and that is scary to me!

    Maybe PCGS needs to put out some eBay police to keep these things from ruining the market!
  • sumduncesumdunce Posts: 1,247 ✭✭✭✭
    Did I get outbid already?!?!?!

    Oh, well, maybe I can win the next one when it appears next time being "sold" by another overseas vendor...



    Sumdunce

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