Hotel buyers buying replicas these days?
CaptHenway
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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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<< <i>These sure look like replicas to me. What do you all think?
linky >>
I suspect it is a completley staged event, from top to bottom, for free publicity.
Yes, the coins look like replicas - a cheap way to get some press.
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<< <i>These sure look like replicas to me. What do you all think?
linky >>
I suspect it is a completley staged event, from top to bottom, for free publicity.
Yes, the coins look like replicas - a cheap way to get some press. >>
Yeah, what he said in the quoted text above this.
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<< <i>These sure look like replicas to me. What do you all think?
linky >>
I suspect it is a completley staged event, from top to bottom, for free publicity.
Yes, the coins look like replicas - a cheap way to get some press. >>
It sure sounds like somthing these folks would do to attract the less than knowledgeable!
What if someone actually brought in an authentic Pine Tree Shilling?
"Sorry, this is a fake but a pretty darned good one. We're prepared to offer you $25!"
The name is LEE!
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What do expect from a guy named Fudge?
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<< <i>These sure look like replicas to me. What do you all think?
linky >>
I suspect it is a completley staged event, from top to bottom, for free publicity.
Yes, the coins look like replicas - a cheap way to get some press. >>
Agree. Obvious replicas which are being used as stage props. That may even be a stock pic added to enhance the story.
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<< <i>These sure look like replicas to me. What do you all think?
linky >>
I suspect it is a completley staged event, from top to bottom, for free publicity.
Yes, the coins look like replicas - a cheap way to get some press. >>
Of course, it's got its share of groaners, too --- who knew that Brenner's initials were "inscribed" on the cent? (Er... the "penny," that is.)
We have had several newspapers come in and show us articles like this suggesting how wonderful it can be for business.
You write the 'story' and hand it over to one of their "staff writers" to embelish.
Complete nonsense.
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<< <i>These sure look like replicas to me. What do you all think?
linky >>
I suspect it is a completley staged event, from top to bottom, for free publicity.
Yes, the coins look like replicas - a cheap way to get some press. >>
Agree. Obvious replicas which are being used as stage props. That may even be a stock pic added to enhance the story. >>
Garbage in, garbage out.
<< <i>How many Pine Trees do you see that are perfectly round and perfectly centered?? And where did that color come from? >>
The replica plating tank???
<< <i>You guys are too cynical, I believe these coins may be part of a treasure from an abandoned storage unit.
YUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP!
<< <i>That may even be a stock pic added to enhance the story. >>
Indeed. Some member of the press went hunting for "rare coin" pictures and saw something that looked interesting to him. Seems plausible.
It would be rather hilarious if the hotel buyers burnt themselves, though.
Sleazy operators getting their comeuppance. Reminds me of one of my favorite personal stories, told and retold many times. Sorry if you've seen it a million times before. (Carl borrowed it and put it up on his website.)
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They probably already do. I wish I had a buck for every cast colonial or cob replica people have called me about.
And I was just a tiny, absentee consignor/antique mall dealer.
Reminds me of the steel cent kerfluffle when Paul Harvey aired something about 1943 copper or 1944 steel cents. I was helping out in a real B&M shop at the time, and boy howdy, you should've heard how the phones blew up. I think we got a hundred calls one day. Everybody and their grandmother had steel cents (1943, of course), or Wheaties.
Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.