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Made ebay seller an offer of $2 for this 1877 Indian Head Cent

jesbrokenjesbroken Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭✭

Said the spot below the 1 bothered me. lol
Jim


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  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 37,177 ✭✭✭✭✭

    not a surprising occurance

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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,933 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wow and it looks like ya can buy all ya want to

  • cheezhedcheezhed Posts: 6,142 ✭✭✭✭✭

    29 sold. Sad.

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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,933 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 6, 2025 3:59AM

    @PerryHall said:
    It would be fun to buy a roll of them and then leave one in a Coinstar reject tray every time you pass one. :D

    Like for April first 👎😈

  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 10,705 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @PerryHall said:
    It would be fun to buy a roll of them and then leave one in a Coinstar reject tray every time you pass one. :D

    Would also be interesting to know how many finders of it would know what they had found.

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  • lkeneficlkenefic Posts: 8,831 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wow... I wonder what the actual coin you would get looks like. The one in the picture looks to have a shallow N reverse and looks legit... and 29 have already been sold!

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,110 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @lkenefic said:
    Wow... I wonder what the actual coin you would get looks like. The one in the picture looks to have a shallow N reverse and looks legit... and 29 have already been sold!

    A lot of times they'll show a pic of a legitimate coin and the one they send the buyer looks nowhere as good.

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,110 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @johnny9434 said:

    @PerryHall said:
    It would be fun to buy a roll of them and then leave one in a Coinstar reject tray every time you pass one. :D

    Like for April first 👎😈

    Exactly. It would be funny if someone who found one posted it here wondering how much it was worth. :D

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • Alpha2814Alpha2814 Posts: 215 ✭✭✭

    Just for fun I put the seller's name in Google Translate (with some spaces around and within the untranslated name, and without the final zero): "Zhou Bin was naked at that time."

    Zhou Bin, per Wikipedia, "is a Chinese politician currently serving as Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary of Yancheng and First Secretary of the Yancheng Military Subdistrict Party Committee".

  • ambro51ambro51 Posts: 14,090 ✭✭✭✭✭

    So Zhou Bins hobby must be casting fake coins nude?

  • mr1931Smr1931S Posts: 6,582 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @PerryHall said:

    @lkenefic said:
    Wow... I wonder what the actual coin you would get looks like. The one in the picture looks to have a shallow N reverse and looks legit... and 29 have already been sold!

    A lot of times they'll show a pic of a legitimate coin and the one they send the buyer looks nowhere as good.

    Right. Part of the scam.

    "A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."
    ---Albert Einstein (b. 14Mar1879--d. 18Apr1955)

  • logger7logger7 Posts: 9,281 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If these fakes keep selling they're just going to get better. A local shop guy bought a key date fake and liked it. I think any serious dealer should boycott them at least.

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,933 ✭✭✭✭✭

    To bad one couldn't send the seller phony cash for the phony stuff. Wishful thinking....

  • jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 37,864 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 6, 2025 8:54AM

    @mr1931S said:

    @PerryHall said:

    @lkenefic said:
    Wow... I wonder what the actual coin you would get looks like. The one in the picture looks to have a shallow N reverse and looks legit... and 29 have already been sold!

    A lot of times they'll show a pic of a legitimate coin and the one they send the buyer looks nowhere as good.

    Right. Part of the scam.

    Go to Ali Express. They cost 94 cents and look pretty good.

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  • ambro51ambro51 Posts: 14,090 ✭✭✭✭✭

    God Help future collectors……

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