Fake Trade Dollar on eBay.

There is simply no way this thing is genuine. The raised bumps are everywhere, on the reverse there is a casting void below the last A in America; dentils at 4:00 are malformed and fused. Fake as the day is long. And if those "die cracks" on the obverse were legit, this would be a collectible variety. And it is not in Kirchgessner's extensive listing of 75CC obverse die varieties in his book

 

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I have no doubt that this is the case for many—at least most—of their items, but this coin clearly slipped through «quality control».

 

That settles it then. I was trying to give mbarr the benefit of the doubt, but a crack like that wouldn't go undocumented by a specialist. Lots of coins on Heritage are described as having die rust which is why I mentioned the possibility.

 

I understand. And I think this one slipped through the cracks and made it onto the active listings. What bugs me is that raw CC Trade Dollars are one of the, if not THE most forged coins out there, of which fact MBarr is no doubt aware, so this item was not subjected to the most basic scrutiny prior to listing?