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How to tell a COPY from the real thing..

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  • Type2Type2 Posts: 13,985 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Bingo.



    Hoard the keys.
  • FredWeinbergFredWeinberg Posts: 6,007 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Isn't that called a

    "Grasp of the Obvious" ?

    Retired Collector & Dealer in Major Mint Error Coins & Currency since the 1960's.Co-Author of Whitman's "100 Greatest U.S. Mint Error Coins", and the Error Coin Encyclopedia, Vols., III & IV. Retired Authenticator for Major Mint Errors for PCGS. A 50+ Year PNG Member.A full-time numismatist since 1972, retired in 2022.
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The Homer Simpson moment..... :D:D:D Cheers, RickO

  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 33,659 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 14, 2016 9:23AM

    How about we change the Hobby Protection Act to require copies be marked: "IT'S A COPY, YOU IDIOT!!!"

    :)

    Numismatist. 54 year member ANA. Former ANA Senior Authenticator. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and ANA Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Also won the PNG's Robert Friedberg Award for "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," Available now from Whitman or Amazon.
  • ashelandasheland Posts: 24,362 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Abegail looks kinda hot. :D

    My YouTube Channel

  • CoinlearnerCoinlearner Posts: 2,565 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Real....

    Copy... :o

  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,968 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 14, 2016 11:32AM

    I saw that FB page and nearly gagged. But as an investment, it's okay. Still not too keen on it as a social networking platform. Okay, off my high horse now and back to the mule. Abegail asks a good question. :joy:

    ``https://ebay.us/m/KxolR5

  • COCollectorCOCollector Posts: 1,397 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "How do you know it's a copy?" -- Too funny!

    Successful BST transactions with forum members thebigeng, SPalladino, Zoidmeister, coin22lover, coinsarefun, jwitten, CommemKing.

  • COCollectorCOCollector Posts: 1,397 ✭✭✭✭✭

    At last, a thread for my favorite Copy:

    Successful BST transactions with forum members thebigeng, SPalladino, Zoidmeister, coin22lover, coinsarefun, jwitten, CommemKing.

  • OldEastsideOldEastside Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭

    There are tale tale signs :smiley:

    Steve

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  • AMRCAMRC Posts: 4,280 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It has been my experience that anything that comes in via "Text" almost never materializes into anything.

    MLAeBayNumismatics: "The greatest hobby in the world!"

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