Bid up to $1225.00; do you think the bidders took the time to attribute the variety?

Current listing: https://www.ebay.com/itm/1854639638...UP2JGcjaTwHm-F9O5MFPQl9nzYktqgeecjG-8bOdbRaR4

Images from the listing:





And mine with "hints"...


I suppose the bidders aren't aware of my Coin Week article either...

https://coinweek.com/counterfeits/s...-a-family-of-struck-fake-draped-bust-dollars/

Best, Jack.

 

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I was thinking fake at a quick glance before I saw the vampire bite mark.

Goes without saying, don't buy raw bust dollars off Ebay unless you're experienced with bust dollars and know what you're doing.

 

The overall look of that one would have given me pause about it. It's another one of those that just doesn't feel right when I look at it. I will be checking outt he article later, even though the coin in question is kinda outside my collecting budget at the moment....

 

Nah, you can get "coins" like that all day long for under twenty bucks.

Now, flipping them on eBay for real coin money without getting caught -- that's trickier.

 

With my 3 or so sales on the bay my account would fit right in with a lot of the ones selling those.... lol

 

I would never pay $1,200 for anything raw on Ebay. Given the astonishing quality of today's fakes, I doubt I would do that even if I did think I knew what I was doing.

Like others have already said, when I opened up this thread and saw that first picture, my gut told me "...that doesn't look good..." Though I don't actually know if the pictured coin is a fake, given the other information and links provided, my gut seems to have served me well in this case.

 

Hint: Jack doesn't write articles in Coin World about real coins...

 

From the seller's other listings I'd say they know nothing about coins.

 

Got to $1525.00 before earning the orange hoodie award...

 

I politely contacted the seller and reported the item. Perhaps others did as well.

 

As did I!

 

Actually just go with my 1st step in verification- ATTRIBUTION! There is no 1798 $ with that obverse configuration...

 

The first step for me is reading your articles.

 

Seller relisted with different images; listing again was removed...

 

Maybe they saw this thread!!awww poor baby.

 

Whenever I see a draped bust dollar the first things I look for are the vampire marks and whether it is the off-center bust, only used on one variety in 1795, but the counterfeiters used one to make a hub and removed the date from it. They have used that undated hub to make undated dies and they have punched every date from 1795 to 1804 into them and used them to make fake bust dollars.

 

Exactly @Conder101 ! Thanks.