Looks fake IMHO

Discussion in 'US Coins Forum' started by sweet wheatz, Sep 13, 2009.

  1. sweet wheatz

    sweet wheatz Senior Member

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  3. GoldCoinLover

    GoldCoinLover Senior Member

    Yeah, especially that chin, it looks like it has a man's chin or something...really bulging out.

    Besides that it looks geniune, if not cleaned example.

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    Nevermind, looks like my initial suspicious were wrong..here's a genuine one, same chin.
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  4. dracula370

    dracula370 Mmmmmmm......Bacon

    That mm sure looks strange, out of place, and with a big space in the middle...
     
  5. sweet wheatz

    sweet wheatz Senior Member

  6. Mark Feld

    Mark Feld Rare coin dealer

  7. raider34

    raider34 Active Member

    I was thinking the same thing. Sweet wheatz what makes you think they are counterfeit?
     
  8. Fullmoonkid

    Fullmoonkid Member

    Absolutely.I think so too.
     
  9. sweet wheatz

    sweet wheatz Senior Member

    Just didn't look right. but I am not an expert. Looked to good to be true i guess
     
  10. Mark Feld

    Mark Feld Rare coin dealer

    What about it looked "too good to be true"? It didn't even look like a nice coin.:confused:
     
  11. yakpoo

    yakpoo Member

    After that 1909-s vdb lesson we had earlier...I'm shellshocked! :rolling:
    I don't think I'll buy on eBay ever again. :crying:
     
  12. majorbigtime

    majorbigtime New Member

    I think it's OK, but I am no eggspert.

    It is good that we are skeptical. Maybe the Chinese fakes will actually improve counterfeit and altered coin detection!
     
  13. Paddy54

    Paddy54 Well-Known Member

    look like its been wizzed
     
  14. Mark Feld

    Mark Feld Rare coin dealer

    Cleaned, perhaps, but I see no indication that it has been whizzed.
     
  15. Vess1

    Vess1 CT SP VIP Supporter

    Lets just say as good as the Chinese fakes are getting, nobody would bet their house that it was real based off those pictures. They can only tell you it doesn't look like a bad fake.

    The honest answer is, it may be real or it may be a modern, very well done Chinese fake and it would take an expert to have it in hand and possibly study it under a microscope to give you any kind of definitive answer. Those pics don't/can't prove any kind of valuable answer for you.
     
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