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Looks fishy to me!!

mcmximcmxi Posts: 890 ✭
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check out this 1943 copper cent on e-bay it is item number 8311745492

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If I was half as smart as I am dumb Iwould be a genious

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  • Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,275 ✭✭✭
    LINK


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  • Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,275 ✭✭✭
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    "It's far easier to fight for principles, than to live up to them." Adlai Stevenson
  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,419 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Would somebody please explain how we can know with certainty that this is a fake?
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

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  • VAMs4U2BuyHereVAMs4U2BuyHere Posts: 304
    In my opinion, if it were legit, it would be sent in to a TPG to be certified & slabbed. It would then be sold through a major auction house where big money collectors have no problem throwing down half a mil or more. Ya just don't sell a raw coin on eBay for half a mil.
  • sonofagunksonofagunk Posts: 1,349 ✭✭
    was listed a few weeks back by the same seller for only $100,000. I should have bought it then. Anyone know what it costs to list that coin at that price?

    -sog
    eBay Error Sales
  • VAMs4U2BuyHereVAMs4U2BuyHere Posts: 304
    $4.60
  • joefrojoefro Posts: 1,872 ✭✭
    Where's coppercoins when you need 'em?

    Joe
    Lincoln Cent & Libertad Collector
  • OffMetalOffMetal Posts: 1,684 ✭
    Looks fishy to me. The "3" looks weird.
    Maybe it could be a 43 overstruck on a 42?
    But I still wouldn't consider it as a 43 copper.
    I would buy it as a double struck wheat.

    Ben
    -Ben T. * Collector of Errors! * Proud member of the CUFYNA
  • sumnomsumnom Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭
    The alleged "43" is a 42.
  • mrearlygoldmrearlygold Posts: 17,858 ✭✭✭
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    Coin's for sale/trade.


    Tom Pilitowski
    US Rare Coin Investments
    800-624-1870

  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    It's pretty obvious that the 2 has been altered to look like a 3. That said, I'm wondering if it could be a mint error 1942. If so, it's a pretty cool coin.

    Russ, NCNE
    eBay consignment sales | | Collectibles from Resco CCC
  • ritepathritepath Posts: 266


    << <i>In my opinion, if it were legit, it would be sent in to a TPG to be certified & slabbed. It would then be sold through a major auction house where big money collectors have no problem throwing down half a mil or more. Ya just don't sell a raw coin on eBay for half a mil. >>



    what he said.
    There's only One

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