Seller on ebay doesn't know anything about his coin...Just that it's rare...
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1894-S dime, uncertified. It's been bid to $2500 with a few days to go. Only $5.48 postage cost to the lucky winning bidder. Now, I can't find the picture for the 1894-S piece being offered in Flynn so hesitate to bid on this particular piece.
Could this be a hitherto undiscovered specimen of a great rarity, the 1894-S dime?
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Their only feedback as a seller is another 1894 s dime, they had two of them!
Thats what the S is for, Special
Scam. Seller had two of the 10 known multi-million dollar coins. Right.
https://www.pcgs.com/coinfacts/coin/1894-s-10c/4805
I expect that the S is for the Shanghai mint.
I think I may have found it
https://ebay.us/m/U74VMt
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I am 90% sure that is 100% fake.
Could be a setup. Make it look like seller sold one and had the positive feedback posted either by themselves or a friend. I suppose it uncirculated too!
I would really like to see this coin.
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Funny how there are 3 bids totaling $2500 and bidding started at $2500. I would think that would be hard to do.
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Yes, that must be the listing, but please don’t bid on it.😉
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It's three bids from one bidder. If a bidder goes in and increases his high bid but there are no competing bidders then the leading bid doesn't change.
I have increased my bids occassionally in the past. In the case of this auction I'm not sure if the bidder is honestly increasing their bid or if it's part of a ruse to make it appear that the auction is hot.
How can it be ungraded but still have a CAC?
He says it is graded by NGC but doesn’t show it in a holder.
The listing also claims that the coin is CAC certified. The seller might not even know what that means.
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It can’t.
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Nope!!!
eBay looked into my two reports - one that the coin wasn’t genuine and the other, that the seller was misrepresenting the coin as being certified by NGC and CAC. And they determined that the listing wasn’t in violation of their policy.
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The first 94s dime he sold was for $400. The buyer said he shipped it without tracking.
Kind of reminds me of this PCGS certified 1877 Indian Head Cent.....
https://www.ebay.com/itm/306895244045?_skw=1877+indian&itmmeta=01KQGEGJ5WE7GEKY6E6XAC1NVX&hash=item477461cb0d:g:AqMAAeSwzU1pwH9k&itmprp=enc:AQALAAAA0GfYFPkwiKCW4ZNSs2u11xBiFE5q5dqIU9le0JeT2R8JLhNCGmeOOO6YaTP+/rvukmVv9+ipTYK9JRbRq75t+yoaas9HboktMUFneEtfPLZ/q0FMzWus13IK7sgMNaYKCRRc+VjwPJNXj5xdHzHO2X81F1Bc/zbVVeFTaxUmg/KeTDiXS30Q3eu0qln0Dm6GZq9INc3Z7l1m0mx2dzb3fD2rCN4rP8RJAS0O0LJe+TtrGdFVa3Q7jdUWdZhCLZ42EM0QEdeJ2AIsvMPnPMLc/0E=|tkp:Bk9SR5Kjwo68Zw&LH_Auction=1
I'd give that dime a hard pass
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Without the tracking stuff...
https://www.ebay.com/itm/306895244045
That's a large cent. LOL.
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Further research reveals that this particular specimen of 1894-S dime was unknown to David Lawrence as well as Kevin Flynn. Don't anybody accuse me of not doing my due diligence when it comes to the 1894-S dime.
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I accidentally came across this listing while hunting for an 1894 Philly issue dime for my one-a-year Barber dime set. I would have posted the link but couldn't make it take here.
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I've got more than a couple 1894-S dime stories to tell. It's my favorite great rarity.
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Sure, drop good money on it. Ignore the fact that a large part of the reverse details are non-existant. Enjoy your rare coin.
I looked at his Ebay listings. Forget the 94s, I want the $30000 1932 slabbed quarter in AU details!
S is for sucker…
They need to ****can their AI bot counterfeit expert.
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It’s not only about the failure to eliminate even blatant counterfeits. As mentioned, I also submitted a separate report regarding the seller’s misrepresentation that the coin was certified by NGC and CAC. That should have been a slam dunk determination by human or AI, that the seller was in violation of eBay policy.
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I watched the new ANA video on Chinese counterfeits, very interesting -- the Chinese manufacturers have 300-500 lot minimums and can provide up to 100,000 a month on some "coins." Also, interesting the comment that basically the entire Red Book has been copied:
I am surprised that CoinFacts does not show one. As you can see from the real one at the bottom, which Legend Numismatics handled, the date on the eBay offering does not match. Also the the rims and the dentiles are wrong. The verdict is, this piece is a counterfeit.
It’s a pretty good fake - or it could be the unique “inverted S” variety!
The date is generally hard for the fakers to get right. One digit of the date on the counterfeit piece, the "8", looks really bad. Also, look how lame and anemic looking the "1" is.
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I reported 2 circulated raw Lincoln cents that are listed as NGC MS64 and PCGS MS65, and the only pictures of the coins were the well worn coins sitting on a flat surface without any slab. AI told me there was no problem with the listings. I give up.
CoinFacts shows 3 (PR66, PR64+, and PR63): https://www.pcgs.com/coinfacts/coin/1894-s-10c/images/4805
They are listed at the very end of the proof Barber dimes.
Sadly, I’m not surprised at their decision. It’s really difficult to fathom, though, as they shouldn’t need coin experts to get that right.
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The eBay fake doesn’t even look like a proof.
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All four digits of the date on the counterfeit piece look like hell. A sorry 1894-S counterfeit I saw many years ago actually had a good-looking date because a genuine 1894 Philly issue was used with an 'S' mintmark soldered on. Horrid looking fake with globules of silver solder hanging on and scorched partially melted features around the soldered on 'S' mintmark.
Two characters had walked into the coin store (Dan Brown's shop on E. Colfax, Denver) with a coin they were wanting $50K for. 1894-S dime. I was just a customer in the store but they showed me the piece when the store employee they first showed it to said he had to go to the back of the store to discuss with the owner whether they would buy or pass on purchasing. I didn't offer an opinion on their coin but it was very obvious to me they were trying to sell the store a fake.
The employee came back to the counter and told the two that the shop would buy their coin only if was deemed to be authentic by ANACS.
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