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Interesting Reverse on this Morgan Dollar

lkrarecoinslkrarecoins Posts: 2,137 ✭✭✭
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Can't blame the guy for trying

Why don't they match the obv & reverse dies when they make fakes? Are they that dopey?

Oh, and he accepts moneybookers too!!!!!!!!

Len
In Loving Memory of my Dad......My best friend, My inspiration, and My Coin Collecting Partner

"La Vostra Nonna Ha Faccia Del Fungo"

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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 33,886 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Looks like they started out with an 1879-S and made a false obverse die and altered it to 1878. Note the second 8.
    Seems to be "antiqued" a little better than the typical Chinese fake.
    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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    AlixTCatAlixTCat Posts: 1,276
    Hijacked account. eBay account name is Hispanic. Moneybookers name is Chinese.
    Account opened in 2003, only two feedback. That's the type of account these guys go for... one that no one will notice has been hijacked.
    Ships from "oversees" is also an indicator of fraud going on, not just that the coin is impossible.

    Jonathan
    I have been a collector for over mumbly-five years. I learn something new every day.
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    CoinHunter2003CoinHunter2003 Posts: 498
    Oh those crafty Chinese! Have to give them credit -
    they just keep trying.

    Alex in Alaska
    Collecting Morgans in Any Grade
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    AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 25,036 ✭✭✭✭✭
    reported, hope they do something!
    bob
    Registry: CC lowballs (boblindstrom), bobinvegas1989@yahoo.com
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    mheffner2mheffner2 Posts: 728 ✭
    Why go through all of that trouble to auction one coin?
    Hi.
    My Odds&Ends eBay Stuff to fuel my coin habit (No Coins)
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    tresgatostresgatos Posts: 531 ✭
    Isn't the 1878-s a rather pedestrian coin?
    molon labe
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    messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,747 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Looks like they started out with an 1879-S and made a false obverse die and altered it to 1878. Note the second 8.
    Seems to be "antiqued" a little better than the typical Chinese fake.
    TD >>


    I tend to agree. Not only is the 2nd 8 malformed, but the obverse is a III2 obverse, used only on the 1878 Rev. of '79 VAMs 230-232, but all coins of 1879.
    John
    Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution

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