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  • boiler78boiler78 Posts: 3,077 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Imagine the stories that one could tell!image
  • supercoinsupercoin Posts: 2,323 ✭
    I'd think he'd be all over that, he needs it for his registry type set -- I might have to bid for him if he doesn't show up. In which case, he'd better want it!! image
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  • braddickbraddick Posts: 24,754 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thanks Tad, but for this one- I'm glad you didn't bid. (I'm still having difficulty forgiving you on that PCGS PO01 1921 Peace dollar on Teletrade a year or so back though!)

    This half cent has been on a couple of times (each time he has slightly dropped his opening price). Now, look at this coin. Why am I reading anything about AG03 money in the discription? Does it look anywhere close to AG or even FA02?
    The hype killed my interest.
    Fortunutely these aren't that tough raw. I think I'll just wait and 'make my own'.

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  • Coin FinderCoin Finder Posts: 7,384 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Braddick you are right on Man!!!

    Tbig
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,760 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No need to "make your own", Braddick- I'll happily do it for you.

    Just send me a Gallery Mint Museum replica and a belt sander. By the time I'm done, nobody will be any wiser. image

    (Scary thing is, this has already been done with a Gallery Mint 1856 FE cent- but the doofus didn't remove the "copy" stamp completely. Almost. That one ran up a few hundred bucks before some of the eBay Coin Chat folks exposed the fraud. I think it even made an encore appearance again later. Maybe we'll see it again...)

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  • braddickbraddick Posts: 24,754 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I remember that one. IT still had the red burn marks the sander (dremmel?) caused. Strange stuff. (Only correction: The Gallery Mint hasn't 'minted' the 1856 Flying Eagle cent yet. I think it was one of the other replica companies).

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,760 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I stand corrected. The Gallery Mint was the only one of those reproduction companies that has brand-name recognition for me, I suppose.
    I would even buy some of those if they weren't so ridiculously expensive. I would pay a few bucks (or a fraction over bullion for gold and silver) to have a piece or two for study, but at the prices they get? Yeesh.

    Hmm. This gives me an idea. I would like to attempt what that faker did myself, though I would not let the product of my tinkering escape onto the market. I'd wear the thing down to AG or so, carry it as a pocket piece for a while, then drill a hole in it and put it on my "Holey Coin Vest" as an eye-catcher and educational piece for when I attend shows. (My heirs would have strict instructions to throw the thing into the ocean after I pass on). I'd like to do this with a larger coin, though. Not a necessarily a key date, but a scarce early type. Maybe a Chain cent or Bust dollar or somethin'. Anybody have an accurate replica for me to play with? I could always find an 1804 dollar, I guess. There's always a flock of idiots bidding on one with eBay. But I wouldn't want to get in a bidding war with the likes of them! imageimage

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  • braddickbraddick Posts: 24,754 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Lordmarcovan- You wouldn't even need to wear it down to AG. How about VF/F or so and simply drill your hole right through the COPY stamp?

    peacockcoins

  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    Lordmarcovan - I thought only the sword Excaliber gets thrown into the ocean upon the death of the owner.Does such a procedure apply to coin replicas also?
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