Fake 1856 Flying Eagle Cent on ebay.........

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• 291fifth Posts: 24,721 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 15, 2008 11:46PM

  Look at the bids!!!!!

  All glory is fleeting.

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• STONE Posts: 15,275 ✭

  November 15, 2008 11:54PM

  Already been posted

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• SUMORADA Posts: 4,797 ✭

  November 16, 2008 12:01AM

  
  Already been posted !
  
  Did not see that........oops!

  coins on ebay

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• mr1931S Posts: 6,429 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 16, 2008 12:01AM

  Is this allowed...
  
  Obviously,it is.It is being advertised as a fake and ebay would likely tell you (they won't say anything to you specifically,however) that the item is "genuine," a genuine fake.
  
  Someone probably got burned with this altered date coin.
  
  Anyone know if there is provision in the Hobby Protection Act for the necessity of marking items like this with the word "COPY" so that hobbyists are not deceived into thinking the item is genuine?
  
  $127 bid and likely to go higher.

  Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

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• TavernTreasures Posts: 1,262 ✭✭✭

  November 16, 2008 12:08AM

  Looks like the work of one of Ebay's Chinese sellers, but without the replica punch. Even though these fakes and people who sell them turn my stomach, this seller is somewhat honest?, in that he lists it as a fake. Maybe the next seller will try to sell it as genuine.

  Advanced collector of BREWERIANA. Early beer advertising (beer cans, tap knobs, foam scrapers, trays, tin signs, lithos, paper, etc)....My first love...U.S. COINS!

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• mr1931S Posts: 6,429 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 16, 2008 12:25AM

  Check out item 120333810484. The subject coin of this thread looks just like it to me,minus the "REPLICA" or "COPY" mark.
  
  Doing a quick check,the other "1856 replicas" i saw on ebay are obvious replicas ie.,the date or size is wrong,the piece is marked "REPLICA," etc.

  Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

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• notwilight Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭

  November 16, 2008 1:35AM

  OP auction has been pulled.

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