Real or fake?

This coin has been on my wish list for a long time, and every now and then I look out on ebay to see what they've got. Here's one that I found tonight:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1788-MASSAC...01?pt=Coins_US_Individual&hash=item43b779fd75

Looks a little too good to be true to me. Thoughts?

Thanks!

-StephenS

 

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I don't like it. I don't recall ever seeing one with such a high relief.

 

Well its 3 days out

 

To my untrained eye, it don't look real. Plus the price seems way too low

 

if it was real, i would not sell it for 10 bucks.

 

Not saying this is the same, I've seen restrikes of this coin currently owned by "coinsarefun". She gave a little info about them once before, which I'll paste below:


"1788-Dated Massachusetts Coinage Restrikes by Evans. Breen-972. According to Walter Breen,
these were struck sometime after WWII by Springfield, Massachusetts coin dealer Henry Evans.
Examples are scarcely seen and seldom offered at auction".
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If it were real it would be in a museum, not grandpa's coin jar.
Guy

 

Wait a second, I think yours is an Evans! Just look at the "E" above the star........

 

While it doesn't look real, just because it's only at $10 doesnt mean its going to stay there. As a fellow American who lists coins and such on Feebay, I've plenty of times listed multi hundred dollar coins at a start of $0.99 because it's cheaper to list than starting them at their full retail value

 

I agree it matches the Evans copy posted by Travlntiques. I have compared it to about a dozen different varieties of genuine Mass cents and it does not match any of them. I would say it has better than a 95% chance of being fake.