1861-S Paquet Reverse

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• MrEureka Posts: 24,667 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 17, 2007 12:04PM

  I've never heard of a fake Paquet.

  Andy Lustig
  
  Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
  
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• ccex Posts: 1,188 ✭✭✭

  January 17, 2007 12:13PM

  Here's just about everything I know about the 1861-S Paquet Reverse double eagle. Heritage Auction
  
  I'd love to see pictures of the allegedly slabbed NTC example. I'd be surprised if no one has tried to counterfeit this yet.

  "Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity" - Hanlon's Razor

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• MrEureka Posts: 24,667 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 17, 2007 12:19PM

  Remember, overgrading and overpricing, which is legal, can be almost as profitable as counterfeiting.

  Andy Lustig
  
  Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
  
  Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.

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• PrivateCoinCollector Posts: 2,415 ✭

  January 17, 2007 12:23PM

  Have you seen the price in VF?

  Morgan HerdTO Gold Mine

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• coindeuce Posts: 13,507 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 17, 2007 12:51PM

  
  
  << <i>Remember, overgrading and overpricing, which is legal, can be almost as profitable as counterfeiting. >>
  
  
  
  Overgrading because of poor skills or knowledge is one issue. Overgrading with intent to defraud is another, and yes illegal issue.

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• CaptHenway Posts: 33,768 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 17, 2007 2:50PM

  I never saw a counterfeit 1861-S Paquet, but in the 5-1/2 years I was at ANACS we never saw a genuine one, either!
  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. Also won the PNG's Robert Friedberg Award for "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," Available now from Whitman or Amazon.

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• Regulated Posts: 2,994 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 18, 2007 1:25AM

  I saw a picture of the NTC coin (months ago). I doubt that it is a counterfeit, but I suspect that it has been repaired.

  
  What is now proved was once only imagined. - William Blake
  

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• MrEureka Posts: 24,667 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 18, 2007 1:40AM

  I never saw a counterfeit 1861-S Paquet, but in the 5-1/2 years I was at ANACS we never saw a genuine one, either!
  
  I've seen more than fifty of them over the years. Never saw or heard of a fake.

  Andy Lustig
  
  Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
  
  Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.

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• GAT Posts: 3,146 ✭

  January 18, 2007 2:02AM

  NTC alone raises big question marks in my mind. I would pass unless you see the coin in person and are a good grader.

  USAF vet 1951-59

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• PerryHall Posts: 47,484 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 18, 2007 2:14AM

  In order to make a credible fake the counterfeiter needs a high grade problem free coin from which to cast his die. This coin is extremely rare in high grade and problem free condition and its unlikely the typical counterfeiter will ever get ahold of one to make his false dies. Being in a third world holder, I would be more concerned that the coin has problems that keep it out of a top tier slab.

  Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
  "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
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