Is this Barber Quarter a fake?

Comments

• ShanerUT Posts: 15

  March 31, 2003 2:26PM

  Thats what I thought .. he says it has a 1908 on the back

  0
• hookedoncoins Posts: 1,231 ✭✭✭

  March 31, 2003 2:33PM

  Why would somebody lose a counterfeit coin... ?
  
  -Jarrett Roberts

  0
• ARCO Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 31, 2003 2:34PM

  WOW, what a peculiar coin. The coin looks just like a circulated quarter would minus the date at the bottom. Could be a counterfeit, but who goes to the trouble to create such a close replica that isn't useful to pawn off on the unsuspecting?
  
  Can you get a reverse scan?
  
  Tyler

  0
• ShanerUT Posts: 15

  March 31, 2003 2:36PM

  
  
  << <i>
  
  Can you get a reverse scan?
  
  Tyler >>
  
  
  
  Im trying to get one ... like I said above .. we find a lot of fake coins, usually they are older than this one ... I am wondering if its not a token... a lot of the tokens we find resemble coins on the obverse and are different on the back.

  0
• ARCO Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 31, 2003 2:41PM

  I have to say that it looks dead on like an original coin. Is it made of silver? Have you gently clinked it against other silver coins to hear the metalic ping? It really looks like an original coin that has been altered.
  
  Tyler

  0
• Dave99B Posts: 8,687 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 31, 2003 2:44PM

  ShanerUT - Throw it up on eBay so Tyler and I can battle it out
  
  Dave

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

  0
• ShanerUT Posts: 15

  March 31, 2003 2:45PM

  lol ... I wish it was mine..
  
  He said he would have a pic posted in about a half hour

  0
• Casey Posts: 1,502 ✭✭

  March 31, 2003 2:47PM

  Count me in for the battle!!

  0
• ARCO Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 31, 2003 2:48PM

  Yes - Maybe you would want to sell it. However Ebay is no place for such a coin. Dave just emailed me and said that he is going to focus on his true love...Susan B anthony's in the lofty MS60 grade range, and that he really wouldn't have much interest. Guess that just leaves me!
  
  Tyler
  
  Oh.. I forgot, and Tom (Casey) recently confessed that his parole officer is sending him back to the pen. for another six months to finish out his sentence for public lewdness and general drunkenness.

  0
• Dave99B Posts: 8,687 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 31, 2003 2:59PM

  Lies! All lies! Lofty MS60 grade? That's the BOTTOM of the Susan B range nice they never circulated worth a damn!
  
  Dave
  
  

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

  0
• ShanerUT Posts: 15

  March 31, 2003 3:17PM

  ummm .. I got the pic of the reverse and ... well .. ummmm
  I'VE BEEN HAD ... the butthead got us all ... its not quite midnight here but it is where he lives so one of the newbies was playing a joke on us all at the other forum .. lol ... sorry guys
  

  0
• Casey Posts: 1,502 ✭✭

  March 31, 2003 3:30PM

  Very funny! I was expecting to get taken by my kids tomorrow, but not by this forum! I could have bid from the pen!

  0