Potential 1913 liberty nickel real or counterfeit?

This is the best I can get with my camera............... John

 

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Huh? Wait, i'm confused now.

 

What do you mean. The guy that slabs the SGS coins also sells them...he "submitted" the coin to his own company and graded it as a possible 1913. Then, he sent it to NGC (look at the NGC submission paper, his name is on it) and paid the fee to have it graded by them.

 

Oh, I see Now.....Dummy (The auction guy, not you).

 

The only suprise to me is the SGS holder doesn't read "Potential 1913 MS70" LOL.

 

I retract my statement of this possibly being an honest mistake... I think it's very clear that Abon/SGS clearly intended to get someone to believe it was a 1913... they just used the word "potential" so when the sucker who buys it complains it's not a 1913, they can say "We never said it was, we just said it potentially was."

I am also now convinced that the person who submitted it to NGC as a "potential" 1913 is probably someone at SGS themselves. They just wanted the piece of paper from NGC saying "We can't tell what this is." Somehow that is supposed to show some legitimacy... I suppose the logic is something like "NGC didn't say it was fake, and they didn't say it wasn't a 1913, so that proves it could be..." (A classic logical fallacy is to assume that something that has not been disproven is therefore proven.)

Anyone who would bid on this would have to know how rare a genuine 1913 would be right? It's a pretty well known fact that only 5 are known to exist. I don't get how someone could be educated enough to know how rare this is and yet be so gullible as to think a genuine one would ever be listed on eBay, espeically if it's a confirmed genuine 6th find of a coin that for years only 5 have ever been known. The odds of coming out ahead in such a deal are rediculously astronomical; you have better odds gambling your money at Vegas.

 

Thanks , it looked pretty good on the 1st picture , but you can really see the tool marks on the enlarged picture .
rzage

 

I actually believe that more than 5 nickels were made. All have been supposively destroyed exept 5 from my knowledge. But then there is the 1974 aluminum cent so anything is possible.

 

Makes me wonder how many buffalos had their legs amputated in homes all across the country only to rip off some sucker logged in to ebay. Bad enough we have to worry about Chinese counterfeits, let alone people with hand tools and too much time on their hands.

 

I think it's a conterfei:secret:t and here's the guy that's responsible for making them.
Jazzcoins joe

 

I hope to see a lot more mug shots like that soon. These people are making coin collecting way too difficult !!!

 

Yes. But then again, the fact the guy went thru the trouble of trying to get this authenticated is worth a laugh alone.

 

Is there a section on CT for guys like this yet?

 

Do you have any evidence to support this? I have never heard of any more than the 5 known coins.

 

Not until that lawsuit with the Shop at Home guys plays out. Calling them "Morons" hurt their feelings.

 

What?! Did I miss something important?

 

It was a joke, stop having an aneurysm...

 

Hey, that's not funny... my goldfish died of an aneurysm.

 

could we please stay on topic if possible?

 

I have never heard of this. Is there anywhere you know of that there might be more of this story available for me to read up on?