There's a 1785 bar copper on the bay right now! There's been a couple different articles on counterfeit bar coppers over the years. I don't know much about them but this one doesn't look genuine to me, how about you? The die chips on it, look terrible! Lastly, someone on this forum has one but I forget who it is, if it's you please post a pic of a real one! https://www.ebay.com/itm/USA-Bar-Co...578256?hash=item265c606450:g:MGIAAOSwpOZgTiVU
Here is an exceptionally nice one from Heritage. Not mine. I agree that it looks way off. https://coins.ha.com/itm/colonials/.../1279-3005.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515
Vendor (correctly, I presume) identifies it as an electrotype copy. If I remember correctly, these were produced some time in the mid-nineteenth century and are worth considerably less than the originals, which are hysterically pricey. I bought one of the copies from a coin shop bid board (do any of these still exist?) c. 25-30 yrs. ago and paid only a few bucks for it. Value has surely gone up some in the intervening years but, that said, vendor’s ask seems a LOT more than I would have guessed it worth these days.
Copy, yes, electrotype, I don't think so and at least certainly not an old one. I think this is a modern pre 1973 copy.
It seems the bidding war started at 12$. Not sure why it has gone as high as it has. Maybe something nefarious? I am not sure as I only buy in hand.
Maybe a post with the direct link to the auction before it ended created a bit of 'interest' in this token?
Wow, groovy city, man! I've never even seen one in person. Where's the tooling? I don't see it. Around the letters?
No sir. Sometime in years past a pocket knife was used to dig crud out from between the bars and left small scratches so we could forever admire his work.
Aargh! Still the real deal, though, for a type most of us will only ever see in the pages of the Red Book...
Now that's a phenomenal Token Randy, good on you for having one, they're quite the rarity! I appreciate the pics and I'll be keeping my eyes peeled for one, don't think I'll ever be able to afford one but I'd really like to see one in hand. They're so rare, even to see one personally would be a treat!
Well thank you..... And I will tell you this.Yes, they are rare but not as rare as you might think. They are a big ticket coin, but if you are accepting of some minor imperfections, you can find some deals. I don't have near the cost you would expect in mine because it is slabbed as a details coin. And that made it QUITE affordable. I had been looking for years and actually my dealer buddy found this for me.
