Fake Trade Dollar sells for Big Bucks on 'Bay

Well this should help a little...

http://www.cointalk.com/forum/t56522/
http://www.cointalk.com/forum/t54340/
http://coins.about.com/od/worldcoins/ig/Chinese-Counterfeiting-Ring/

 

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Come to Colorado Springs in two weeks and take the mini-seminar A Practical Guide To Detecting Counterfeit Coins that a friend and I are teaching at ANA Summer Seminar. Better yet, take the full 5-day course - Detecting Counterfeit & Altered US Coins. (Last I heard both of them are sold out. But there is always next year.)

If you cannot make it to Summer Seminar you can take 1-day courses in counterfeit detection offered by ANA at many ANA shows (e.g., World's Fair of Money and National Money Show). ANA also offers a correspondence course on counterfeit detection.

 

Hobo:
Is Ken Bressett scheduled to do any courses this summer?

 

Hobo can't make it to Colorado , what do you think of the correspondence course ?
rzage:whistle::thumb:

 

Look at the bright side... there's a clueless collector out there with $900 less in his pocket to bid up the price on legitimate coins for sale, and not only on ebay.

 

:goof: you guys got me all nervous now.
As I await my first eBay Trade Dollar. However I did do a tiny bit of research and the back matches the front, ie for 1877, it has an arrow over the 2 not the 0.

I don't mind learning from my mistakes if I made one...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...em=&sspagename=STRK:MEWNX:IT&salenotsupported

radhya:

 

I don't think so. Ken usually pops in and sits in on various classes. Not sure if he hits every class or not. He will often offer a few words of wisdom if asked.

 

It's certainly not as good as attending a class (no teacher-pupil interaction and no hands-on with actual counterfeit coins) but it is MUCH better than nothing. In fact, I think it is pretty good - a very good place to start anyway.

 

Well said buddy, Thats what I'm talking about. :loud:

 

The Chinese fakes continue to improve, here is one drawing bids right now that is a challenge as the forgers have gotten most of the commonly used diagnostics about right, but they also missed a few things. Be sure to examine the large images closely, compare them to any xf example on Heritage, for instance.

http://cgi.ebay.com/USA-1876-cc-Tra...66:2|39:1|72:1205|240:1318|301:1|293:1|294:50

 

The bidiots never cease to amaze me! :goof:

Ribbit :whistle:

 

Wow! somebody got an 1876-CC for just 125.01! Oh- forgot- it's a fake. Looking at the bids, it really does not look to me like shilling, either.

 

LOL...Lots-o-fakes from China. I have one just like it, magnetic of course. Ripley

 

Did anybody try to let the winner know that he bought a fake?

Or has eBay completely made it impossible to locate winners to inform them? I know they have changed the identity thing recently.

 

Aye, impossible

 

We have to wait for feedback to be left.

Ribbit

 

I'm not even sure we can do anything then, either- eBay doesn't show the price paid or the item id in the feedback, since this guy is doing the private auction thing. Thank you, eBay, for protecting these bidders! They would be so upset if they found out they bought junk for hundreds of dollars, they might take it out on eBay! People would find out! Revenues would fall! eBay would lose all those FVF's from scammers! Oh, the humanity....

 

:crying:Wondering if he was useing one of these to make it ???

 

"A fool and his money are soon partying" - Ricky B

 

Makes you want to scream out to the world, PLEASE JOIN CT, and see what you are missing! If he had only joined!