A pretty good 1805 half dollar fake from a chinese ebayer

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• Leiana Posts: 4,349 ✭

  July 31, 2006 7:02AM

  Her face and the curls in the forhead area really don't look right to me.
  
  -Amanda

  
  
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• Leiana Posts: 4,349 ✭

  July 31, 2006 7:31AM

  I just noticed that the 5 is quite smaller than the rest of the numbers.
  
  -Amanda

  
  
  I'm a YN working on a type set!
  
  My Buffalo Nickel Website Home of the Quirky Buffaloes Collection!
  
  Proud member of the CUFYNA

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• braddick Posts: 25,000 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 31, 2006 7:43AM

  
  
  << <i>Link, please?, in case any of my buddies care to contact the seller and/or bid. >>
  
  eBay LINK

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• braddick Posts: 25,000 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 31, 2006 7:47AM

  1805 Fake Bust half LINK
  
  The Link above this one is for a fake 1805 quarter the same seller is offering. . .

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• Whizzard Posts: 955

  July 31, 2006 7:52AM

  Sigh, no one has high balled this wonderful replica. Whatever shall we do?
  
  But....
  
  Look up in the sky! Its a bird! No, its a plane! No, its, its ___________?
  
  

  What do you think, Mr. Bigglesworth?
  

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• seateddime Posts: 6,180 ✭✭✭

  July 31, 2006 8:13AM

  good hole fillers, did you that quarter, I may throw that in the Dansco 7070 for now, if it fits

  I seldom check PM's but do check emails often jason@seated.org
  
  Buying top quality Seated Dimes in Gem BU and Proof.
  
  Buying great coins - monster eye appeal only.

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• seateddime Posts: 6,180 ✭✭✭

  July 31, 2006 8:15AM

  http://cgi.ebay.com/US-1805-25cents-VF_W0QQitemZ130012477938QQihZ003QQcategoryZ11963QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
  
  
  this is the quarter

  I seldom check PM's but do check emails often jason@seated.org
  
  Buying top quality Seated Dimes in Gem BU and Proof.
  
  Buying great coins - monster eye appeal only.

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• CaptHenway Posts: 33,254 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 31, 2006 9:49AM

  They are getting much better at antiquing them. That 1921 Mercury DIme would fool a lot of people.
  TD

  Numismatist. 54 year member ANA. Former ANA Senior Authenticator. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and ANA Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Author of "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," Available now from Whitman or Amazon.

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