<< <i>just curious jdillane, did you ever pay for the one that was sent to you or did you just rip the guy off ? >>
As mentioned, I would pay - if I liked the coin. I did not like the coin because it was a counterfeit. I did not like that it was sent as a genuine. If not paying for the coin was ripping off this crook, then I am guilty. What would you suggest that I do, ship it back to China?
It appears the photo that Sinin1 posted of the fake has COPY photoshopped onto the coin, it does not look like it was stamped as it has not taken on the dark AT applied to the rest of the coin. The Chinese counterfeiters will do this, I have heard. So the coin Russ posted may not have had COPY tooled off as it may never had it stamped when sold.
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<< <i>It appears the photo that Sinin1 posted of the fake has COPY photoshopped onto the coin, it does not look like it was stamped as it has not taken on the dark AT applied to the rest of the coin. The Chinese counterfeiters will do this, I have heard. So the coin Russ posted may not have had COPY tooled off as it may never had it stamped when sold. >>
The one I posted had the word copy 'shopped in to the image when I bought it on eBay.
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Thanks for the additional education. I knew it was a fake, but I had the benefit of knowing the source of the coin.
Russ, NCNE
<< <i>very similar to this one
but yours has been hit with a torch
my pictured coin on eBay currently at $2 delivered >>
nice catch. i can see the word copy in russ's example too now. easy when you
know where to look.
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<< <i>very similar to this one
but yours has been hit with a torch
my pictured coin on eBay currently at $2 delivered >>
nice catch. i can see the word copy in russ's example too now. easy when you
know where to look. >>
Maybe it's easy for you, but I can't see it.
Russ, NCNE
<< <i>There is no word copy on mine.
Russ, NCNE >>
It looks like it DID have the word "COPY", but was removed. Very subtle.
<< <i>just curious jdillane, did you ever pay for the one that was sent to you or did you just rip the guy off ? >>
As mentioned, I would pay - if I liked the coin. I did not like the coin because it was a counterfeit. I did not like that it was sent as a genuine. If not paying for the coin was ripping off this crook, then I am guilty. What would you suggest that I do, ship it back to China?
<< <i>It appears the photo that Sinin1 posted of the fake has COPY photoshopped onto the coin, it does not look like it was stamped as it has not taken on the dark AT applied to the rest of the coin. The Chinese counterfeiters will do this, I have heard. So the coin Russ posted may not have had COPY tooled off as it may never had it stamped when sold. >>
The one I posted had the word copy 'shopped in to the image when I bought it on eBay.
Russ, NCNE
yours might not have been torched
but possibly some liver of sulfur powder
what is on the edge?
<< <i>
nice catch. i can see the word copy in russ's example too now. easy when you
know where to look. >>
Maybe it's easy for you, but I can't see it.
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i am looking in the same general area as the "stamped" coin. i thought i could clearly
see the remainder of a faint C as well as the top of the O.
Sure looks that way from the pic and it seems another poster is seeing
what I am seeing.
but with russ having the coin in hand i am sure he is right if it was
never stamped. just sure looks suspicious based on the picture.
<< <i>
<< <i>Counterfeit. >>
Hair curls under B and E, should be under E and R.
What's wrong with the hair curls? Not sayin' it's real, just asking about the diagnostic.
Lance.
OP
Real
<< <i>XF45 details... Altered surface/cleaned. Possibly non-genuine... >>
You can omit the word "possibly" and everything else preceding "non-genuine", as it has been established that the coin is counterfeit.