Is this FE real?

I just bid on this on Ebay....and without looking the guy has 0 feedback Now I'm wondering if I bought a fake coin. The auction still had 6 days to go and I bid $30 bucks....he ended the auction just a few minutes later and I got a notification from Ebay to pay for this auction. This has never happened to me in the 10 years I've been a buyer on Ebay. Your thoughts?

 

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Looks authentic. Genuine 1858 small letters flying eagle, but cleaned to an unnatural color.

 

It's the most common date. Appears cleaned. I don't see why it wouldn't be real.

 

Thanks guys.....thats what I needed to hear.....hopefully the cleaning will tone over....but even then it will still be evident

 

Just wanted to make sure since the guy was so anxious to end the auction....Thanks!

 

It sounds like they may have shill bid it up and sold it to the highest bidder early. I hope it works out for you.

 

Long ago I was selling something and ended it as soon as I got a bid. Because I needed the money QUICK.

 

Still a beautiful coin!

 

Please let me know if you have any AU twenty cent pieces that fit that description in the near future!

 

Looks real, just cleaned
Probably short on cash, so he closed it quick.

 

Then it will be cleaned and toned, that's right.

We take them as we find them. The important thing is, you weren't tricked.

 

20 cent pieces are nice. I got one in change one day back in the 50's. Was supposed to be a quarter. My mom forgave me for not forcing the issue with the vendor.

 

Genuine and cleaned, also a common date.

 

But what was the opening bid, and your final price, the $30?

 

The starting bid was .99 cents. Someone else had a bid of $15.50 and I bid $30 with 6 days to go on the auction. He ended the auction right after my bid and $30 was the final price.

 

He said he had to buy a bed for his kid

 

Thanks!!

 

If you bid $30 and they ended the auction, you prob should have gotten it for $16
and not the full price of your bid. Unless other bidders had max bids in for $29.50.
However because of the cleaning this coin is in the $10-$15 max range.
If it was uncleaned, $35 is probably fair.

 

Interesting story ... The Twenty Cent Piece comes back to have the mistake which doomed the issue in the 1870s come back to haunt it again in the 1950s!

It's surprising that a Liberty Seated coin would still be in circulation at that time, let alone a Twenty Cent Piece. I have heard that people got Indian Cents in change then, although I never did, but I never heard of something ealier, aside from Morgan Dollars, of course. You could still those at the bank. The earliest coins I ever saw were a couple of 1909 Lincoln cents, Buffalo Nickels, Standing Liberty Quarter and Walkers.

 

My grandmother and great uncle were both collectors and both got me into the hobby and encouraged me in my pursuit. They both had stores, so they would go through the change and allow me to go through the change as well. This would have been late 60's, early 70's. We found Indian head cents, not regularly, but occasionally. Walkers, Franklins, Mercury's and Kennedy's were more common. Wheaties were abundant, but mostly from the 40s and 50s. Oddly enough, the buffalo nickel was the most elusive, but we'd find war nickels.

The SLQ might be the worse coin design ever as far as wear goes. We'd find a few, but always well worn. Silver Washingtons and Roosevelts were common.

Then once a year each of them would allow me to cherry pick one coin from a grouping. Of course they held back the gold, but that started me on the Morgans. Most of the coins were of course circulated, most would be classified as junk silver, but I have a problem getting rid of them now. Which leads to another problem - storage lol!

But the Morgans, they were largely AU, put aside from early on and some early dates. I ended up inheriting my grandmother's collection, my great uncle was robbed multiple times and his collection was stolen and spent by his caretakers during his last years, sad thing is, I don't think he had the mental capacity to even realize it by then.

My current employer has a storefront as well, and we did find an indian penny in the till over this last 12 month period. Very unusual though, only one in nine years.