What some people pay for fakes is crazy!!

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• Gluggo Posts: 3,566 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 3, 2020 2:55PM

  Here is some pics for the others

  
  
  

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• Dave99B Posts: 8,708 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 3, 2020 3:06PM

  Absurd!

  Dave

  Always looking for original, better date VF20-VF35 Barber quarters and halves, and a quality beer.

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• TurtleCat Posts: 4,628 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 3, 2020 3:22PM

  Well, the seller at least didn’t misrepresent it and it’s unlikely to be a Chinese counterfeit. A good and honest fake. Lol.

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• Aotearoa Posts: 1,564 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 3, 2020 3:23PM

  I bought a real 1804 for less than that!

  Smitten with DBLCs.

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• Aotearoa Posts: 1,564 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 3, 2020 3:25PM

  Why alter an S-223? The 1/000 is a dead giveaway...

  Smitten with DBLCs.

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• opportunity Posts: 1,067 ✭✭✭✭

  May 3, 2020 5:03PM edited May 3, 2020 5:03PM

  @Aotearoa said:
  Why alter an S-223? The 1/000 is a dead giveaway...

  266 is greater than 223?

  Early American Copper, Bust and Seated.

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• ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 4, 2020 5:19AM

  I wonder why anyone would purchase it... well, I do not wonder much, since I have seen beanie babies sold for thousands of dollars and other such strange things.... Cheers, RickO

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• BillJones Posts: 34,850 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 4, 2020 7:23AM edited May 4, 2020 7:23AM

  People buy hole fillers, like fake 1799 and 1804 large cents, for date sets more often than you might think. Back in the 19th century, electrotypes were acceptable pieces, and some very deceptive ones were made. I saw an electrotype Chain Cent in an EAC auction that even had the vines and bars edge. "The coin" was beautiful and very deceptive.

  The worst, most egregious example I have seen is in the NGC type coin registry. A guy over there stuck a Mint State 1804 "restrike cent" in the Draped Bust Cent slot in his type set, and NGC accepted it. First, it's not a coin but a 19th century counterfeit. Second, the reverse is from an 1820 large cent and is not the same design as the real coin. I complained about it, but they let him do it any way. After putting in the effort to put together an honest type set, I don't take kindly to the powers at be allowing that to happen.

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• Jimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 4, 2020 8:03AM

  Yes ... it really is crazy!

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• jmlanzaf Posts: 36,944 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 4, 2020 3:38PM

  @BillJones said:
  People buy hole fillers, like fake 1799 and 1804 large cents, for date sets more often than you might think. Back in the 19th century, electrotypes were acceptable pieces, and some very deceptive ones were made. I saw an electrotype Chain Cent in an EAC auction that even had the vines and bars edge. "The coin" was beautiful and very deceptive.

  The worst, most egregious example I have seen is in the NGC type coin registry. A guy over there stuck a Mint State 1804 "restrike cent" in the Draped Bust Cent slot in his type set, and NGC accepted it. First, it's not a coin but a 19th century counterfeit. Second, the reverse is from an 1820 large cent and is not the same design as the real coin. I complained about it, but they let him do it any way. After putting in the effort to put together an honest type set, I don't take kindly to the powers at be allowing that to happen.

  I would tend to put electrotypes in a separate category.

  All comments reflect the opinion of the author, evn when irrefutably accurate.

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