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Altered Date or Counterfeit?

UtahCoinUtahCoin Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I used to be somebody, now I'm just a coin collector.
Recipient of the coveted "You Suck" award, April 2009 for cherrypicking a 1833 CBHD LM-5, and April 2022 for a 1835 LM-12, and again in Aug 2012 for picking off a 1952 FS-902.

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  • lasvegasteddylasvegasteddy Posts: 10,432 ✭✭✭
    1st thing that comes to me is counterfeit...chinese...not san franciscanese
    everything in life is but merely on loan to us by our appreciation....lose your appreciation and see


  • tjkilliantjkillian Posts: 5,578 ✭✭✭
    It has the look of a cast counterfeit to me.
    Tom

  • commoncents05commoncents05 Posts: 10,096 ✭✭✭
    Looks cast to me also.

    -Paul
    Many Quality coins for sale at http://www.CommonCentsRareCoins.com
  • lasvegasteddylasvegasteddy Posts: 10,432 ✭✭✭
    the "s" is for shanghiimage
    everything in life is but merely on loan to us by our appreciation....lose your appreciation and see


  • lcoopielcoopie Posts: 8,873 ✭✭✭✭✭
    the 1 and the 3 in the date are not in the correct position for an 1893s

    altered
    LCoopie = Les
  • Read the auction description.
    Sandy and Jimmy know full well this is a fake.

    Ray


  • << <i>It has the look of a cast counterfeit to me. >>



    That what it be....
  • dohdoh Posts: 6,457 ✭✭✭
    100% without a doubt cast counterfeit.
    Positive BST transactions with: too many names to list! 36 at last count.
  • tightbudgettightbudget Posts: 7,299 ✭✭✭
    Fake...and as others have said, cast.
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,621 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Jimmy Dean Sausage and Sandy Britches for your hard earned dollars.
  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,775 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Counterfeit
    TD
    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Not an altered day..........oh, Utah, you know that this is mondern Chinese fodder!!!!!!


    bobimage
    Registry: CC lowballs (boblindstrom), bobinvegas1989@yahoo.com
  • Not a chance!!! Just to be sure, I dug mine out of the safe and compared the dates.
    Several things were wrong but the most obvious is the bottom curl that doesn't
    come close to looking like any of the 4 different mints.
    JET
    It is health that is real wealth, not pieces of gold and silver. Gandhi.

    I collect all 20th century series except gold including those series that ended there.
  • Toxic
    molon labe
  • EdscoinEdscoin Posts: 2,028 ✭✭✭
    YOU GRADE. NO GUARANTEE, SELLING AS-IS, AS-SEEN. ALL SALES FINAL, NO RETURNS. NEED CASH MORE THAN COINS.

    ED
    .....................................................
  • UtahCoinUtahCoin Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I knew it was no good, I just couldn't decide if it was altered or a cast fake. I guess I could ask the seller.....image
    I used to be somebody, now I'm just a coin collector.
    Recipient of the coveted "You Suck" award, April 2009 for cherrypicking a 1833 CBHD LM-5, and April 2022 for a 1835 LM-12, and again in Aug 2012 for picking off a 1952 FS-902.
  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Ooooooooooooooooooooops, listing was removed.

    Now we'll never know.

    bobimage
    Registry: CC lowballs (boblindstrom), bobinvegas1989@yahoo.com

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