Pictures of LAPD "Skid Row" Rare Coin Siezure

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• Shamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭

  October 27, 2006 2:46PM

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• WoodenJefferson Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭✭

  October 27, 2006 3:13PM

  some of those boggies
  
  web page below
  
  http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-coins13oct13,0,2577745.story?coll=la-home-headlines

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• Myqqy Posts: 9,777 ✭

  October 27, 2006 4:27PM

  Those coins are hysterical!

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• seemyauction Posts: 3,655 ✭

  October 27, 2006 4:48PM

  MIXED BAG: The designs on the seized coins vary.
  
  The Los Angeles Police Department plans to seek expert authentication.
  (Anne Cusack / LAT)
  
  Expert? You can ask a kid at a coin club meeting.....man those are bad fakes.....
  
  
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• Bryan1315 Posts: 579

  October 27, 2006 6:44PM

  1865 wasgington quarter with a HUGE adams apple it looks like, and they didn't even bother to put a date on the IHC

  

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• PerryHall Posts: 46,853 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 27, 2006 8:03PM

  From the pic, they look like they are all about the same size without regard to denomination. The Indian cent is the same size as the trade dollar.

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• sinin1 Posts: 7,500 ✭

  October 27, 2006 8:45PM

  the indian head usually has
  
  1 dollar
  1865
  
  
  on the reverse

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• Cam40 Posts: 8,146 ✭

  October 27, 2006 9:00PM

  modern crap!
  

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• Hyperion Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭

  October 27, 2006 10:40PM

  sad thing is, put those coins up for sale on ebay and someone will bid 40 for just the flowing hair fake

  My Ebay (None)

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• ABC123 Posts: 2,627

  October 27, 2006 10:51PM

  Not even Close !

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• Coxe Posts: 11,139 ✭

  October 27, 2006 10:54PM

  
  
  << <i>1865 wasgington quarter with a HUGE adams apple it looks like, and they didn't even bother to put a date on the IHC >>
  
  
  
  That would be a goiter, much more common in Washington's day and in 1865.

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• Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭

  October 27, 2006 11:48PM

  
  
  << <i>the indian head usually has
  
  1 dollar
  1865 >>
  
  
  I've always seen them dated 1851.

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