Fake 1921 Peace on ebay

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• Raybob15239 Posts: 1,359 ✭✭✭

  February 27, 2008 11:21PM

  looks like there was a MM removed too.

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• Prethen Posts: 3,461 ✭✭✭

  February 27, 2008 11:24PM

  Can't people (i.e. dumb bidders) tell that something is goofy looking with that date?

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• direwolf1972 Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭

  February 27, 2008 11:28PM

  Here's another case of a seller who really knows what they are doing.
  
  Check out his other auction. A 85 O Morgan.... only the pics in the auction are of a 1883 O coin.

  I'll see your bunny with a pancake on his head and raise you a Siamese cat with a miniature pumpkin on his head.
  
  You wouldn't believe how long it took to get him to sit still for this.
  
  
  

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• doh Posts: 6,457 ✭✭✭

  February 28, 2008 12:21AM

  
  
  << <i>Can't people (i.e. dumb bidders) tell that something is goofy looking with that date? >>
  
  
  I've often thought that too. I mean, people who'd want a 1921 Peace Dollar aren't just buying a random silver dollar, they know that it's a key date....which makes me think most of the bids are shills. I think the seller gets a few of his friends to bid it up, so it looks legit and then hopes that one "dumb bidder" comes along so he gets paid.

  Positive BST transactions with: too many names to list! 36 at last count.

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• Zrider Posts: 365

  February 28, 2008 12:31AM

  heres one on the bay... ad say 1928 peace dollar.... looks like a 27 in picture
  
  http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110227825404

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• wiskerchew Posts: 206

  February 28, 2008 1:50AM

  That one is sooooo obvious but the newbe will not have a clue.

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• kevinstang Posts: 1,521 ✭✭✭

  February 28, 2008 1:56AM

  
  
  << <i>That one is sooooo obvious but the newbe will not have a clue. >>
  
  
  
  Doesn't even appear to be the high relief 21 style, but rather the typical low relief of later coins.

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• vplite Posts: 1,385 ✭✭✭

  February 28, 2008 2:05AM

  
  
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  << <i>That one is sooooo obvious but the newbe will not have a clue. >>
  
  
  
  Doesn't even appear to be the high relief 21 style, but rather the typical low relief of later coins. >>
  
  
  
  
  
  That is one strange looking coin.

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• BECOKA Posts: 16,961 ✭✭✭

  February 28, 2008 2:08AM

  e-bay should put a button on raw coin auctions that when pressed notifies some pre approved numismatist that authenticity is questionable, please verify before auction transaction is complete.

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• Weiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 28, 2008 3:53AM

  

  We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
  --Severian the Lame
  

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• Broadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 28, 2008 4:42AM

  Wow... and there's a dealer in the bidder crowd too with a $71 bid!

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• ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭

  February 28, 2008 4:44AM

  Obviously an altered 1927 with the top bar of the '7' digit removed. And with a blob of a mintmark still visible.
  
  And of course, not in high relief.
  
  [Edit to add: No, the more I look at it, the more this obviously not a merely altered coin, but a fake one.]

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• Steve27 Posts: 13,275 ✭✭✭

  February 28, 2008 4:44AM

  I wonder if it's an altered 1924-S?

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• cmerlo1 Posts: 7,960 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 28, 2008 5:28AM

  Reported (although I doubt they'll do anything before the auction ends).

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• clarkbar04 Posts: 4,979 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 28, 2008 6:29AM

  Brought decent money!
  
  I didn't see this post and started my own on it. D'oh!

  MS66 taste on an MS63 budget.

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• silvermonger Posts: 96

  February 28, 2008 6:36AM

  hammered at 103$
  While I much prefer to mind my own business, Ive been ripped off on both a 1921 and a 1928p myself in the past and I couldnt resist emailing the winning bidder to recommend a close look at what they were about to buy.

  I am serious! and don't call me Shirley

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