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JimWJimW Posts: 566 ✭✭✭✭
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Rut roh! My sister saw this at a local auction over the weekend.

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  • ColonialcoinColonialcoin Posts: 700 ✭✭✭✭

    Yes, but is there a buyers premium?

  • TomBTomB Posts: 21,738 ✭✭✭✭✭

    She looks pissed off to be in that holder!

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  • pursuitoflibertypursuitofliberty Posts: 7,133 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @TomB said:
    She looks pissed off to be in that holder!

    She looks pissed off to have that nose job too!


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  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭

    And some poor ignominious fool will soon part with their cash for that crap.

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  • GuzziSportGuzziSport Posts: 115 ✭✭✭✭

    I once bought a fake 1799 bust dollar, all these years later I consider it a cheap education.

  • ElcontadorElcontador Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BillJones said:
    This is obviously a product of the "mentally challeged" all the way around. It's a terrible counterfiet, and the sharpness is more like G-VG. Nobody involved with this thing knows what they are doing.

    Here's a real one, which is graded AU-58.

    Nice coin, Bill. The slight wear on the eagle's breast and neck put it in a 58 holder. The original coin gets the "to je govno" award of the day.

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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,427 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 27, 2025 3:52AM

    @GuzziSport said:
    I once bought a fake 1799 bust dollar, all these years later I consider it a cheap education.

    Bust Dollars have never been cheap. I paid $210 for my first one in Choice VF circa 1968. That was more than month’s pay from my summer job.

    I hope the fake was at a bargain price for what you thought you were buying.

    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,427 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 24, 2025 2:33PM

    @Elcontador said:

    @BillJones said:
    This is obviously a product of the "mentally challeged" all the way around. It's a terrible counterfiet, and the sharpness is more like G-VG. Nobody involved with this thing knows what they are doing.

    Here's a real one, which is graded AU-58.

    Nice coin, Bill. The slight wear on the eagle's breast and neck put it in a 58 holder. The original coin gets the "to je govno" award of the day.

    Thank you!

    That one is a bit more. It’s tied for the finest known of a very scarce variety, Bolender 20. It is the plate coin in Bolender’s book.

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  • MrBlusterMrBluster Posts: 357 ✭✭✭

    Just a weak strike.

  • GuzziSportGuzziSport Posts: 115 ✭✭✭✭

    @BillJones said:

    @GuzziSport said:
    I once bought a fake 1799 bust dollar, all these years later I consider it a cheap education.

    Bust Dollars have never been cheep. I paid $210 for my first one in Choice VF circa 1968. That was more than month’s pay from my summer job.

    I hope the fake was at a bargain price for what you thought you were buying.

    Hey Bill, it was a long time ago but I believe it was around $800 or so… yes it was a lot of money at the time and it was a hit to my ego, but it made me realize that I needed to learn before I spent, and over time that perspective and ethic has made me a better collector and ultimately build a better collection. Life gives you lemons, you learn to make lemonade!!

  • ElcontadorElcontador Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BillJones said:

    @GuzziSport said:
    I once bought a fake 1799 bust dollar, all these years later I consider it a cheap education.

    Bust Dollars have never been cheep. I paid $210 for my first one in Choice VF circa 1968. That was more than month’s pay from my summer job.

    I hope the fake was at a bargain price for what you thought you were buying.

    Bill, it took me 8 years to find an AU Bust $ I liked with original skin. I saw three others that were dipped but not excessively, but didn't buy them for reasons I won't get into here. Almost all of the at the least sixty I saw were either bleached, lightly cleaned, or had questionable color.

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    "Seu cabra da peste,
    "Sou Mangueira......."
  • sellitstoresellitstore Posts: 3,026 ✭✭✭✭✭

    These were collectible and brought a premium as far back as the 19th century. That's why so many have been cleaned or are otherwise not original They have been subject to collector abuse for longer than many U.S. coins-over 150 years.

    Collector and dealer in obsolete currency. Always buying all obsolete bank notes and scrip.
  • WalkerfanWalkerfan Posts: 9,547 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 26, 2025 10:24AM

    Wow..

    -Bad counterfeit (they gave her a HUGE nose!! LOL)
    -Grossly Overgraded
    -Improper use of Sheldon Scale terminology

    Anyone that has even a clue would stay far, far away and simply LAUGH…SMH

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  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,549 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The rare “Busted” Dollar…

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