Real or Not: 1881 Proof Trade $

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• PerryHall Posts: 46,868 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 24, 2005 8:48AM

  I don't see a return privilage. A coin like this needs to be slabbed by one of the top 3 TPGS to get maximum bids, especially on e-Bay. Being raw makes me highly suspicious.

  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

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• mhammerman Posts: 3,769 ✭✭✭

  November 24, 2005 8:49AM

  Storm clouds on the horizion and mouldy wheat.

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• FatMan Posts: 8,977 ✭

  November 24, 2005 8:51AM

  Can't speak for real or not cause the image is too small. But blatant AT

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• PerryHall Posts: 46,868 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 24, 2005 8:55AM

  Agree with the AT assessment. It may be there in an effort to hide heavily hairlined surfaces or some other problem.

  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

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• BlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 24, 2005 9:05AM

  
  In this day and age, when I see a high value coin like this NOT in a TPG slab, I immediately wonder why...
  
  I guess the TPG's have me well-trained - BUT - before the internet, you would only buy a coin like this after either seeing it personally, or through a VERY well trusted dealer or friend (possibly both)
  
  I agree with the AT - you can practically smell the Clorox , and probably done so to hide wiping or excessive hairlines.

  Check out my current listings: https://ebay.com/sch/khunt/m.html?_ipg=200&_sop=12&_rdc=1

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• Outhaul Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 24, 2005 9:16AM

  On a high-end coin...no slab = no sale.
  ESPECIALLY a Trade Dollar on eBay!

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• shmort6552 Posts: 696

  November 24, 2005 10:22AM

  I gotta wonder why a lawyer would have his "valuable" coins sold to a pawn shop who is selling everything from coins to cameras etc etc.
  I'd run from that one

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• MikeInFL Posts: 10,188 ✭✭✭✭

  November 24, 2005 10:35AM

  Looks dipped or polished and retoned, possibly AT...Mike

  Collector of Large Cents, US Type, and modern pocket change.

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• lordmarcovan Posts: 43,893 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 24, 2005 11:22AM

  It's a raw coin.
  
  It's a raw Trade Dollar. On eBay.
  
  The seller's name has the word "pawn" in it.
  
  There's apparently no return privilege.
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  

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• michael Posts: 9,524 ✭✭✭

  November 24, 2005 2:51PM

  real but

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• michael Posts: 9,524 ✭✭✭

  November 24, 2005 2:54PM

  retail from a rat a$$ front of a coin rag advert. dealer $1950.00
  
  true value for me cash value $975

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• ER Posts: 7,345 ✭

  November 24, 2005 5:16PM

  
  
  << <i>It's a raw coin.
  
  It's a raw Trade Dollar. On eBay.
  
  The seller's name has the word "pawn" in it.
  
  There's apparently no return privilege. >>
  
  
  
  Plus, "Attorneys Estate Find Of 88 Rare Coins - LAST COIN"

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