Dangerous Bar Copper Counterfeit on eBay

Pistareen

Hey folks:

While I've seen plenty of Chinese-style counterfeits of various colonial issues -- Fugios, Continental dollars, even Georgius Triumpho -- usually they're pretty laughable. There are two Bar copper right now that actually look pretty dangerous. Here is a link to one: Counterfeit Bar Copper

The same seller has another fake Bar copper listed, from the same dies, and a counterfeit Continental dollar. Looking at his feedback, it doesn't look like he's ever sold a real coin

If anyone more web-savvy than me can save the larger sized pictures, I'd like to add them to my counterfeit file.

Incidentally, I've never seen a genuine misstruck Bar copper.

Be very careful with Bar coppers. The die diagnostics are easy to see but difficult to duplicate -- a spur on bar 12 is the easiest one to locate, even in poor quality pictures.

lkeigwin

This is what's on his auction pages, John. Only one set of images is larger. You should be able to right click and save them.

I know nothing about these so I haven't reported his auctions. Doesn't look like he's drawing a crowd.
Lance.

TomB

It looks like one of those intentional products that the Gallery Mint used to make. When you hit "Enlarge" the image doesn't get any larger, but it allows you to save it if you right click and choose from the dropdown menu "Save Picture As".

Pistareen

Perfect! That's what I needed. I couldn't right click and when I went burrowing through the source code, I couldn't find the images of the reverses. Thanks.

All three of the above coins are modern fakes, incidentally.

MsMorrisine

oops

never mind

hchcoin

Scary

seanq

Someone in an error coin forum I frequent just posted a link to this auction for a misstruck 1792 Science & Industry cent and before I even clicked I knew it would be from the same seller. I'm going to point them to this thread and try to save someone else some cash.


Sean Reynolds

ColonialCoinUnion

There has been an Ebay seller from Alabama selling colonial copies and oddball "errors" like these for years, always described optimistically.

Looks like the same dude now with a new handle.

garrynot

Someone paid $120 for that odd Bar Copper. Ugh.

coindeuce

For whatever it is worth - I believe I have witnessed a new policy forthcoming from eBay. It appears from a single event I was involved in reporting recently: In the case where a counterfeit item listing is reported to eBay and Ebay agrees with the report by cancelling the listing, they are cancelling all coin auctions by the same seller, apparently as a punitive measure for failure to disclose the counterfeit in that listing. My observation may be incorrect, but I wouldn't be surprised if it comes to that soon enough.