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$10 Liberty MS64... just wow. 😖

ashelandasheland Posts: 23,935 ✭✭✭✭✭
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This is pretty bad. :#


An older gentleman came into my work to get opinions on his coins...
These were in the group. Luckily the rest was real. :(

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  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,935 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @DarkRage666 said:
    Looks like a child's play coin... is it at least real gold?

    Not gold in the slightest! The holders look kinda good at a distance, but in hand it's really easy to tell. They are off in every aspect...

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  • AethelredAethelred Posts: 9,291 ✭✭✭

    Looks real to me! :p

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  • 2bucks2bucks Posts: 636 ✭✭✭
    edited April 1, 2021 10:28AM

    How do you know it's not real? Looks like someone swapped the coin but kept the holder inserts.

    Here's the cert lookup:
    https://ngccoin.com/certlookup/3675007-008/64/

  • DoubleEagle59DoubleEagle59 Posts: 8,396 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Can't tell from the coin but either it's a fake or perhaps a typo?

    There is no way in H-E double hockey sticks that coin gets an MS grade.

    Even Stevie Wonder knows better.

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  • coinbufcoinbuf Posts: 11,957 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Heck of a good job of swapping that coin out, sucks for the customer.

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  • ChrisH821ChrisH821 Posts: 6,812 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Don't get it too hot or the chocolate might melt

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  • jwittenjwitten Posts: 5,247 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yikes! Really really bad fake.

  • PedzolaPedzola Posts: 1,028 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I am not a krugerrand expert but seems like those are pretty easy to ID as fake just because they are the wrong color.

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  • TurtleCatTurtleCat Posts: 4,628 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 1, 2021 11:57AM

    Counterfeit slab with real insert from a crackout? I hate it when people are scammed this way. It would be ideal if everyone knew what MS64 looked like and all but still.

    Edit, shows another reason why having TV be the coin + having available slab images can be a great anti-scam tool for PCGS.

  • fathomfathom Posts: 1,915 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Bad slab.

  • ChrisH821ChrisH821 Posts: 6,812 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Cert check shows this is clearly not the right coin. NGC also warns of "Possible counterfeit holder" so it appears they know these are out there with this cert number.

    https://www.ngccoin.com/certlookup/3675007-008/64/

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  • Downtown1974Downtown1974 Posts: 7,063 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 1, 2021 12:16PM

    Hmmm...doesn’t look like a fake slab. I agree that the coin was swapped out. Hard to tell from the images how well the slab was resealed. After looking more, the prongs are suspect.

  • SilverProofQuarter1883SilverProofQuarter1883 Posts: 1,886 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Though it would be a pre 1866 until I looked closer to see it was 20th century

  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,935 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Admittedly the hologram is the most convincing part. But next to a real slab, you can see the texture is different. In the picture it looks pretty good.

    Even the color of the slab plastic is different than a real slab.

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  • CoinosaurusCoinosaurus Posts: 9,645 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The plastic prongs are wider in the first image.

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  • WalkerfanWalkerfan Posts: 9,817 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Good detective work @asheland !!

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  • coinsarefuncoinsarefun Posts: 21,763 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @asheland said:
    I promise, the holder and the insert are fake. I’ve seen many NGC slabs. The ticket, the plastic and hologram are fake. They’re all off. I showed the gentleman that has them a real NGC slab side by side and you can clearly see everything about it is off.

    No swapping of coins, it’s entirely counterfeit.

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    Wow, I feel really bad if it would have made it on to eBay. I wonder that’s how he got it?

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 44,017 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yikes. I was initially thinking, “wow, that’s the weakest strike I’ve ever seen”.

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  • vplite99vplite99 Posts: 1,392 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thanks asheland, this was one of the most interesting and educational post I've seen here.

    I have K-rands, all BU and just butt-ugly IMHO, and it never occurred to me to get them graded and encapsulated. They are bullion.

    They have a "feel" to them, which is easy to learn. Gold is heavy. I don't know how one would feel in plastic.

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  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,935 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @coinsarefun said:

    @asheland said:
    I promise, the holder and the insert are fake. I’ve seen many NGC slabs. The ticket, the plastic and hologram are fake. They’re all off. I showed the gentleman that has them a real NGC slab side by side and you can clearly see everything about it is off.

    No swapping of coins, it’s entirely counterfeit.

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    Wow, I feel really bad if it would have made it on to eBay. I wonder that’s how he got it?

    From what I understand, he got them from a guy in person. Flea market I believe.

    Sad what dishonest people are willing to do.

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  • coinsarefuncoinsarefun Posts: 21,763 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @asheland said:

    @coinsarefun said:

    @asheland said:

    Wow, I feel really bad if it would have made it on to eBay. I wonder that’s how he got it?

    From what I understand, he got them from a guy in person. Flea market I believe.

    Sad what dishonest people are willing to do.

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    Yeah, really sucks how people go out of their way to be dishonest. I always thought if dishonest people put in half the time and brain cells to real work as they do for bad things they would be rich!
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  • JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That's bad.

  • Namvet69Namvet69 Posts: 9,301 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Will an xrf be able to read that coin thru the plastic holder? Peace Roy

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wow... When viewed by itself, for an inexperienced collector, that would sell for sure. Thanks for show it and describing the issues.... will certainly help new collectors here. Cheers, RickO

  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,935 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Namvet69 said:
    Will an xrf be able to read that coin thru the plastic holder? Peace Roy

    They do. I’ve had slabbed coins scanned through the plastic.

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